Faculty profile
Helene Deacon
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Latest papers
From Cantonese Lexical Tone Awareness to Second Language English Vocabulary: Cross-Language Mediation by Segmental Phonological Awareness.
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2019 · senior author
Latest funding
- $24,988
Digital literacy technologies: Leveraging orthographic learning for maximum reading outcomes.
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $64,500
How do we build skilled readers? Applying event-related potentials to understanding and optimizing children’s reading development
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
- $20,000
Canadian Refugee Child, Youth and Family Research Coalition: using research to inform best practices for language, literacy, learning, social integration, and child and family wellbeing
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
1 publications.
From Cantonese Lexical Tone Awareness to Second Language English Vocabulary: Cross-Language Mediation by Segmental Phonological Awareness.
Choi W, Tong X, Deacon H
Digital literacy technologies: Leveraging orthographic learning for maximum reading outcomes.
Principal investigators: Deacon, Hélène
How do we build skilled readers? Applying event-related potentials to understanding and optimizing children’s reading development
Principal investigators: Newman, Aaron
Keywords: (1) reading; (2) learning to read; (3) education; (4) psychology; (5) event-related potentials; (6) phonology; (7) orthography; (8) semantics
Canadian Refugee Child, Youth and Family Research Coalition: using research to inform best practices for language, literacy, learning, social integration, and child and family wellbeing
Keywords: Syrian child refugees; youth refugees; refugee families; immigrants; services; resilience; language; literacy; learning; literacy; social integration; wellbeing
Tools for understanding language and reading: Psycholinguistic databases for morphological variables in French and English
Principal investigators: Wilson, Maximiliano
Keywords: (1) morphology; (2) database; (3) frequency; (4) visual word processing
Ensuring reading success for all students in early French immersion
Principal investigators: Chen, Xi
Keywords: early French immersion; French; English; reading; cross-language transfer; metalinguistic awareness; literacy development; multilingual children; at-risk readers
Becoming a skilled reader: Orthographic and semantic processing during reading
Principal investigators: Deacon, Hélène
Post-secondary students with reading disabilities
Principal investigators: Parrila, Rauno K.
Keywords: reading disability; adults; post-secondary students; academic achievement
Mechanisms of spelling development
Principal investigators: Deacon, Hélène
The origins and extent of young children's knowledge of morphological conventions in reading and writing
Principal investigators: Deacon, Hélène S.
Keywords: reading; spelling; education; morphology; orthography; theories of literacy development
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