Ann Sutton

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Ann Sutton, PhD

Professor emerita

1997: PhD Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University
1983: MSc Communication Sciences and Disorders, Boston University
1978: MA Linguistics, University of Toronto
1976: BA French Language and Literature, University of Toronto

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Biography

Professor Sutton has been involved in the field of communication disorders since 1979. After working as a researcher and clinician, she completed her doctorate and joined academia as a professor at the Université de Montréal in 2000. Professor Sutton joined the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology program at the University of Ottawa in 2009 and retired in December 2023.

Professor Sutton is not accepting new students for thesis supervision.

Research interests

Communication and language acquisition for individuals who use augmentative and alternative communication systems
Language and academic outcomes of diverse student groups (monolingual, bilingual, multilingual; with and without difficulties related to speech and language), in different language of instruction programs (English schooling, French schooling, French immersion)
Language development and disorders

Publications

Sutton, A., Genesee, F., Kay-Raining Bird, E., Chen, X., Sorenson Duncan, T., Pagan, S., & Oracheski, J. (2024). Academic achievement of minority home language students with special education needs in English language of instruction and French immersion programs. Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education, 12(1), 1-24.
Sorenson Duncan, S., Sutton, S., Genesee, F., Chen, X., Kay-Raining Bird, E., Pagan, S., Oracheski, J. (2023). Academic Achievement in English: Minority Home Language Students in Early French Immersion. under review, International Journal of Bilingualism, January 2023.
Charles, C., Sutton, A., McLeod, A., FrEnDS-CAN group. (2021). Non-word Repetition in Monolingual and Bilingual School-aged Children; Does Language of Testing Matter? under review, International Journal of Communication Disorders, April 2022.
Sutton, A., Trudeau, N., Morford, J. P., Smith, M. M., & Mascolo, M. È. (2022). Expressive and receptive performance with graphic symbol sentences by individuals who use aided communication. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 38(3), 135-147.
MacLeod, A., Trudeau, N., Lefebvre, P., Beauchamp, M., Schneider, P., Sutton, A., & Bérubé, D. (2022). How community and family support bilingual development: insights from bilingual Canadian families. International Journal of Multilingualism.
Sutton, A., Trudeau, N., Morford, J. Smith, M. (2020). 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 1 (13).
Kay-Raining Bird, E., Genesee, F., Sutton, A., Chen, X., Oracheski, J., Pagan, S., Squires, B., Burchell, D., Sorenson Duncan, T. (2020). Access and Outcomes of Children with Special Education Needs in Early French Immersion. Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education, Online ahead of print: 09 November 2020.
Lefebvre, P., Fiorino, A., Johannsen, D., Tait, Tkalec, A., & Sutton, A. (2017). Shared storybook reading to enhance early literacy skills of children with speech sound disorders: A feasibility study. Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, 41, 72-91.
Kay-Raining Bird, E., Trudeau, N. & Sutton. A. (2016). Pulling it all together: The road to lasting bilingualism for children with developmental disabilities. Journal of Communication Disorders, 63, 63-78.
Sutton, A. (2016). Symbolic representation and graphic symbol use: Insights from typical development. In Smith, M. & Murray, J (Eds.), The Silent Partner? Language, Interaction and Aided Communication (pp. 65-118). J & R Press.
Trudeau, N., Sutton, A., Morford, J. (2014). An investigation of developmental changes in interpretation and construction of graphic AAC symbol sequences through systematic combination of input and output modalities. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 29, 1-13.
Cleave, P., Kay-Raining Bird, E., Trudeau, N. & Sutton, A. (2014). Syntactic Bootstrapping in Children with Down Syndrome: The Impact of Bilingualism. Journal of Communication Disorders, 49, 42-54.
MacLeod, A., Sutton, A., Sylvestre, A., Elin Thordardottir & Trudeau, N. (2014). Outil de dépistage des troubles du développement des sons de la parole : bases théoriques et données préliminaires. Revue canadienne d’orthophonie, 38, 40-56.