Ann Sutton

Professor Sutton is a faculty member of the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology program. She has been involved in the field of communication disorders since 1979. After working in research and as a clinician, she completed her doctorate and joined academia as professor in 2000. Professor Sutton has been at the University of Ottawa since 2009.

Professor Sutton is accepting new students for thesis in co-supervision.

• Language acquisition issues in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
• Discourse skills in monolingual and bilingual children
• Language and academic outcomes in French Immersion and English instruction of children with different language profiles (English-speaking with typical development or with special education needs; speakers of a minority language).

• 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.
• 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). doi:10.1080/17549507.2020.1756406
• 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 2020DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jicb.20012.kay
• 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2016.07.005
• 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. https://doi.org/10.3109/07434618.2014.940465
• 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2014.02.006
• 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.