Chih-Ing Lim

Chih-Ing Lim, Ph.D., is currently Senior Technical Assistance Specialist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Dr. Lim serves as the co-director of the STEM Innovation for Inclusion in Early Education Center (STEMIE), a national center to ensure young children with disabilities are included in joyful and developmentally appropriate STEM learning opportunities. She is also PI of SCRIPT-NC, where she works with community college faculty to better prepare early childhood professionals to serve children with disabilities and who are from culturally and racially diverse families. Dr. Lim currently co-chairs the International Early Childhood Inclusion Institute, an annual conference held in Chapel Hill, NC. Originally from Singapore and having worked as a secondary school math and music teacher, and as a curriculum specialist at the Ministry of Education, her work focuses on developing solutions to supporting higher ed faculty and early childhood practitioners to become competent and confident in promoting equitable access and participation of children with disabilities in inclusive settings.