Ann Sutton, University of Ottawa

Research

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Latest papers

Developmental patterns of non-word repetition by monolingual and bilingual school-aged children.
International journal of speech-language pathology · 2024 · senior author
Expressive and receptive performance with graphic symbol sentences by individuals who use aided communication.
Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985) · 2022 · first author
Expressive and receptive use of speech and graphic symbols by typically developing children: What skills contribute to performance on structured sentence-level tasks?
International journal of speech-language pathology · 2021 · first author

All 5 publications

Latest funding

Academic achievement and language outcomes of French immersion and English education programs for students with different language learning experiences
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$24,998
The discourse skills of monolingual and bilingual school-aged children
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$365,096
What does it take to communicate using graphic symbols
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$162,150

All 3 grants and awards

5 publications.

01

Developmental patterns of non-word repetition by monolingual and bilingual school-aged children.

Charles CM, MacLeod AAN, Sutton A

International journal of speech-language pathology2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/17549507.2023.2236333 PMID: 37778369

02

Expressive and receptive performance with graphic symbol sentences by individuals who use aided communication.

Sutton A, Trudeau N, Morford JP, Smith MM, Mascolo MÈ

Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985)2022First author

DOI: 10.1080/07434618.2022.2085623 PMID: 35726671

03

Expressive and receptive use of speech and graphic symbols by typically developing children: What skills contribute to performance on structured sentence-level tasks?

Sutton A, Trudeau N, Morford JP, Smith MM

International journal of speech-language pathology2021First author

DOI: 10.1080/17549507.2020.1756406 PMID: 32366126

04

Pulling it all together: The road to lasting bilingualism for children with developmental disabilities.

Kay-Raining Bird E, Trudeau N, Sutton A

Journal of communication disorders2016Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2016.07.005 PMID: 27485245

05

Syntactic bootstrapping in children with Down syndrome: the impact of bilingualism.

Cleave PL, Kay-Raining Bird E, Trudeau N, Sutton A

Journal of communication disorders2014Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2014.02.006 PMID: 24630592

Academic achievement and language outcomes of French immersion and English education programs for students with different language learning experiences

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Sutton, Ann E.

Keywords: French immersion; academic outcomes; language outcomes; special education needs; minority home languages

$24,998

The discourse skills of monolingual and bilingual school-aged children

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Cleave, Patricia L.

Keywords: bilingualism; school-age children; discourse skills; narrative skills; expository skills; language development

$365,096

What does it take to communicate using graphic symbols

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Sutton, Ann E.

Keywords: language learning; graphic symbols; language representation; cross-modality communication

$162,150

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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