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Human Development Program Distinguished Speaker Series:

Resilience and Vulnerability in the Arabic-English Bilingual Development of Syrian Refugee Children and Youth

With Professor Johanne Paradis from the University of Alberta

Thursday, March 27, 2025
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
EDUC 120, Learning Commons
Education Building | 3700 McTavish

Johanne Paradis is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Adjunct Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Alberta. Her research is concerned with bilingualism in children with typical development and in children with developmental disorders, in particular children learning English-as-a-second language from immigrant and refugee families. Paradis has published more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters on bilingual children and is first author of Dual Language Development and Disorders, 3rd Edition, Brookes Publishing (2021). Paradis is the recipient of the 2020 National Achievement Award from the Canadian Linguistic Association.

Co-sponsored by the project Plasticit茅 cognitive et acquisition du langage : l鈥檈ffet de l鈥檈nvironnement linguistique funded by le Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec -Soci茅t茅 et culture.