February 21st marks International Mother Tongue Day. Through our lab, we have been honoured to work alongside with parents, often mothers, to support the transmission of their language. #IMLD #LanguageAdvocacyDay @UofARehabMed
Category Archives: Studies
Lab Presentation Round-UP
As we head into the shortest days of the year here in Edmonton, we are thinking fondly of the long warm summer days. In Summer 2021, our Multilingual Lab members had a blast presenting their research at conferences!
Our research with Syrian refugee families was spotlighted!
We were excited to have our work spotlighted on the @cyrrcoalition website. Since Winter 2016, the Multilingual Families Lab has been working with students and community members to develop an innovative program to support the early language development of children who were refugees from Syria.
Dual-Language Stimulation in YEG during COVID
For their capstone project, SLP students McCleary, White & Piquette completed an scan of needs for dual-language stimulation in Edmonton and pilot our program. Parent perspectives indicate that a mixed-delivery approach would cater to unique community needs during the pandemic. We obtained #SSHRC funding to pursue this work. #UAlbertaCSD @UofA_RehabMed
Pronunciation of French by bilingual children
We developed multilingual information about children’s pronunciation of French in kindergarten.
Multilingual Families Lab Familles Multilingues 