Susan Rvachew
Associate Professor
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
McGill University
Beatty Hall, 1266 Pine Avenue West
tel: 514-398-4136
e-mail: susan.rvachew(at)mcgill.ca
Membership Status
Principal Member
Research Themes
Language Acquisition
Speech Science Modeling
Areas of Expertise
Current Research Interests
My research is concerned with the interaction of phonemic perception abilities and articulation skills in phonological development. My studies involve either infants or preschool-aged children. The research methods that I use include longitudinal descriptive and comparative designs as well as experimental treatment efficacy studies. Currently, I am investigating cross-linguistic differences in phonetic development during infancy and the development of prereading and early reading skills in young children with severely delayed phonological skills. I am also developing several computer-based tools for improving children’s phonological processing abilities
Selected Publications
- Rvachew, S. & Grawburg, M. (2006). Correlates of phonological awareness in preschoolers with speech sound disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49, 74-87.
- Rvachew, S., Mattock, K., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (2006). Developmental and cross-linguistic variation in the infant vowel space. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120(4), 2250-2259.
- • Rvachew, S., Nowak, M., & Cloutier, G. (2004). Effect of phonemic perception training on the speech production and phonological awareness skills of children with expressive phonological delay. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 13, 250-263.
- Rvachew, S. & Nowak, M. (2001). The effect of target selection strategy on sound production learning. Journal of Speech-Language and Hearing Research, 44, 610-623.
- Rvachew, S., Slawinski, E.B., Williams, M., & Green, C. (1999). The impact of early onset otitis media on babbling and early language development. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, 105, 467-475.
Graduate Students
- Dr. Karen Mattock (PhD, Postdoctoral fellow, co-supervised)
- Dr. Andrea Macleod (PhD, Postdoctoral fellow, co-supervised)
- Ms. Jennifer Mortimer (PhD candidate)
- Ms. Pi-Yu Chiang (Ph.D. candidate)
- Mr. Abdulsalam Al-Haidary (PhD candidate)
- Ms. Francoise Brosseau-Lapré (PhD candidate)
