RESEARCH & FACULTY
Chantal Mayer-Crittenden
Chantal Mayer-Crittenden
Assistant ProfessorFrançais
Humanities and Social Sciences
705.675.1151 ext. 4121
L-611
Sudbury Campus
Chantal Mayer-Crittenden is an experienced speech and language pathologist specializing in bilingualism, primary language impairments (PLI) and non linguistic cognitive intervention. She completed her PhD in 2013 at Laurentian University, Sudbury: "Second Language Learning for Majority-Language children in a Minority Context: Language Impairment or typical second language development?". She also studied interdisciplinary work in the field of communication sciences and disorders. Past and current clinical experience includes but is not limited to dysphagia and speech disorders. She is an assistant professor for the B.Sc.S. and M.Sc.S. ès orthophonie programs at Laurentian University. Courses taught include: Speech sciences, Voice disorders, Dysphagia.
- B.A. (Psychology and Linguistics) Laurentian University
- M.Sc.S. (Speech Language Pathology) University of Ottawa
- PhD (Human Studies - Communication and Cognition) Laurentian University
She has presented at both the national and international levels on the topics of majority language learners and primary language impairments and is currently working on a twin study to determine the effectiveness of non linguistic cognitive intervention on the improvement of linguistic competencies in both monolingual and bilingual (French-English and English-French) children. She is also working on establishing preliminary morphosyntactic norms for francophone children between the ages of 4 and 6 residing in a minority context.
- CNFS; 2013-2014: co-researcher:
- CNFS; 2012-2013: primary investigator:
- CNFS; 2011-2013: co-researcher:
- Bélanger, R., Keating, N., Mayer-Crittenden, C., Minor-Corriveau et Robillard, M. (2013). Premature Francophone Infants in Northern Ontario as the Object of Interdisciplinary Research. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 7(2).
- Minor-Corriveau, M., Robillard, M., Bélanger, R., Keating, N. et Mayer-Crittenden, C. (2013) Speech-Language Pathology : A look at what makes this field interdisciplinary by nature. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 7(2), 1-13.
- Robillard, M., Bélanger, R., Keating N., Mayer-Crittenden, C., Minor-Corriveau, M. (2013). Interdisciplinary Models of Teamwork in Augmentative and Alternative Communication. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 7(1), 35-44.
- Vaillancourt, V., Laroche, C., Mayer, C., Basque, C., Nali, M., Eriks-Brophy, A., Soli, S.D., Giguere, C. (2008). The Canadian French Hearing in Noise Test. International Journal of Audiology, 47, 383-385.
- Vaillancourt V., Laroche C., Mayer, C., Basque, C, Nali, M, Eriks-Brophy, A., Soli, S. D., Giguère, C. (2005). Adaptation of the HINT (hearing in noise test) for adult Canadian Francophone populations, International Journal of Audiology, 44:358-369
