AV俱乐部

Education

BSc Honours (University of Prince Edward Island)
DPhil (University of Oxford)
PDF (University of British Columbia)

Research Interests

Dr. 贬茅濒猫苍别 Deacon is a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada and a Professor in the Faculty of Science, where she directs the . She completed her doctoral research as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford in 2004. She is currently co-Director of a new 2.5-million-dollar Partnership Grant: Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World. Deacon has world-renowned expertise in reading development, with active collaborative research examining how children achieve the reading skills they need to fully participate in society. Deacon鈥檚 research is conducted with amazing partner schools and collaborators around the world.鈥疘n 2022 she was named as one of the top 2% scientists in the world, across all disciplines and ages, by Stanford University. To learn more about the wide reach of Deacon鈥檚 research including impact on public policy and educational and clinical practice, visit .听听

Students at all levels can get involved in new data collection or analysis of existing large-scale datasets, including learning new statistical techniques. Potential projects include examining reading development in children, including in digital contexts and in bilinguals.听听

Selected Publications

• Tong, X., Yu, L., & Deacon, H. (2024). A meta-analysis of the relation between syntactic skills and reading comprehension: A cross-linguistic and developmental investigation. Review of Educational Research. Advance online publication. 鈥�
• Ryken, A.M., Wade-Woolley, L. & Deacon, S.H. (2024). Punctuation: a missing link between awareness of prosody and reading comprehension.鈥疪eading and Writing. Advance online publication.鈥�
• Deacon, S. H., Levesque, K. (2024). Mechanisms in the relation between morphological awareness and the development of reading comprehension. Journal of Educational Psychology. Advance online publication.鈥�听
• Heintzman, S., Conrad, N. J., & Deacon, S. H. (2024).鈥痸gck versus vack:鈥疶he contributions of children鈥檚 early sub-lexical orthographic knowledge to gains in word reading.鈥疛ournal of Research in Reading, 47(2).鈥�
• Deacon, S. H., Mimeau, C., Levesque, K., & Ricketts, J. (2024). Testing mechanisms underlying children鈥檚 reading development: The power of learning lexical representations. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication.
• Howard-Gosse, A., Bergey, B. W., & Deacon, S. H. (2023). The reading challenges, strategies, and habits of university students with a history of reading difficulties and their relations to academic achievement. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 52(2), 91-105.鈥�鈥�舛寞
• Nastasiuk, A. M., Courteau, 脡, Deacon, S. H. & Thomson, J. M. (2024). Drawing attention to print or meaning: How parents read with their preschool-aged children on paper and on screens. Advance online publication.鈥疛ournal of Research in Reading.鈥�
• Thompson, J., &鈥疍eacon, S. H. (2021). Technology and a child鈥檚 journey to literacy. In Werker, J. F. et al. (Eds.)鈥疘mpact of COVID-19 on Language and Literacy in Canada鈥�(pp. 75-77). Royal Society of Canada.
• Courteau, E., Loignon, G., Dutemple, M., Deacon, S. H. (2024). The impact of the pandemic on development: Parents鈥� perceptions on language and literacy. Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. 48(1), 17-27.
• McGrath, P. J., Asmundson, G. J. G., Blackstock, C., Bourque, M. C., Brimacombe, G., Crawford, A.,鈥疍eacon, S. H., McMullen, K., Mushquash, C., Stewart, S. H., Stinson, J., Taylor, S., Campbell-Yeo, M. (2020, October 9).鈥疎asing the disruption of COVID-19: Supporting the mental health of the people of Canada.鈥� Royal Society of Canada. https://rsc-src.ca/en/research-and-reports/easing disruption-covid-19-supporting-mental-health-people. 听
• Savage, R., Maiorino, K., Gavin, K., Horne-Robinson, H., Georgiou, G., & Deacon, H. (2023). Contrasting morphology interventions in children with poor morphological awareness in Grade 3: A school-based RCT trial. Journal of Learning Disabilities, Advance online publication.听 听

Selected Awards and Honours

2024-29鈥擠istinguished Research Professorship, Faculty of Science
2020鈥擡lected to听the Royal Society of Canada鈥檚 College of New Scholars
2015-20鈥擪illam Professor, Faculty of Science
2013鈥擟anadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists Editor鈥檚 award
2012鈥擵oted 3^rd听Best Professor in 2012 for 鈥淏est of Halifax鈥� in local newspaper听鈥淭he Coast鈥�
2010鈥擨WK Auxiliary Award for top grant submitted to competition
2010鈥擴KLA/Wiley-Blackwell Research in Literacy Education Award
2008-10鈥擬arch of Dimes Basil O鈥機onnor Award
2008-10鈥擭ational Academy of Education Spencer Fellowship
2009鈥擵isiting Professor, European Doctoral College

Memberships

• Royal Society of Canada鈥檚 College of New Scholars
  
• Affiliate Member, Language Sciences Initiative, University of British Columbia
  
• Member of Society for the Scientific Studies of Reading

Teaching

PSYO 1012 -听Introduction to Psychology II: Learning and Development
PSYO 3093 - Development of Language and Literacy
PSYO 4092 - Special Topics in Developmental Psychology
PSYO 4501/4502 - Honours Thesis Seminar

Service and Activity

• Editorial Advisory Board Member for:听Journal of Research in Reading听(since 2008),听Reading Psychology听(since 2008),听Applied Psycholinguistics听(since 2012),听Scientific Studies of Reading (since 2012), Reading Research Quarterly听(since 2017), The Reading League (since 2019), and Journal of Educational Psychology (since 2020).
• At AV俱乐部: Member, Faculty of Science Human Ethics Committee (Social); Member, Ad Hoc Probationary Review Committee (Department of Psychology and Neuroscience); and Honours Advisor (Department of Psychology and Neuroscience).