McGill - School of Communication Sciences and Disorders

09/04/2026

Get Involved in the next McGill's Strategic Academic Plan!

McGill launches consultation on next Strategic Academic Plan

07/09/2026

🎉 Congratulations to PhD student Samin Moradi on becoming the McGill Writing Centre Fellow until the end of the Fall semester!

Samin will be developing and implementing a project aimed at facilitating writing and introducing writing resources for research students in our school.✍️📚

06/09/2026

Big congrats to the SCSD PhD trainee, Fernanda Alonso Arteche and her supervisor Prof. Linda Polka on a successful thesis defense on "Listening to Babies: Neural and Behavioral Evidence for Infant Talker Bias in Adults "

06/01/2026

Class of 2026 member Nariman Amantayev from the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Congratulations Nariman 🥳

As part of our Spring Convocation 2026 coverage, we asked graduates from our six Schools to share their experiences of completing a degree in McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Here, we meet Class of 2026 member Nariman Amantayev from the School of Communication Sciences and Disorde...

06/01/2026

Winner for the best Poster Presentation at CRBLM’s Scientific Day for Project “Exploring Chronicity in Muscle Tension Dysphonia: Thematic Coding and Preliminary Analyses”
Congratulations Katerina Pisegna🥳

05/25/2026

We're excited to celebrate Prof. Nicole LiJessen, who has received the prestigious Chercheurs Boursiers Senior award from the Fonds de recherche du Québec for her project “Une nouvelle frontière pour la santé numérique de la voix et des voies respiratoires” for the 2026-2027 competition! 🎉

https://www.mcgill.ca/medhealthsci-research/funding/external-funding/frq-research-scholars/recipients

05/14/2026

Please join us for a 1-day symposium organized by the CRLMB on June 16th featuring talks, a poster session (submit your abstract by May 19th!) and group discussion on the topic of:

Shifts in understanding language across the autism spectrum and throughout development
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOMb-UZ3Ul6tLChm0cZALcg2AIMT0F9FsL9TCDv6toibws_g/viewform

The event will be held in person at 2001 avenue McGill College, Montreal, 6th floor. Talks can also be attended virtually by zoom.

04/13/2026

📣 Participants Needed for Research Study!

Are you a Spanish-speaking parent of Latin American descent with a child (ages 4-5 years old) in a French preschool or daycare in the Greater Montréal area?

We invite you to participate in the Culturally Responsive Literacy Project from the Child Phonology Lab.

📚 We are studying how Latino families read with their children in Spanish and French.
🏡 The study includes 4 home visits to assess language development and record shared reading sessions (between parent and child)
🎁 You will receive $50 CAD in gift cards and a children’s book for participating.
👉 The study is currently recruiting more families to participate.

👉 Learn more or sign up here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/HzFHx3nWTw
📧 Questions? Contact Carlos (PhD candidate) at [email protected]

Thank you for supporting our research!

04/02/2026

Big congrats to the SCSD PhD trainee, Marcos Domínguez Arriola and his supervisor Prof. Marc Pell on a successful thesis defense on "A Neuropragmatic Investigation of Social Interaction: From What We Value to How We Coordinate in Conversation ".

You made it, Marcos!

03/17/2026

https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/new-injectable-gel-could-help-repair-damaged-swallowing-muscles-371932

A new injectable gel developed by researchers at McGill University and Kyoto University could enable stem cell-based treatments for swallowing disorders. While stem cells have the potential to repair damaged swallowing muscles, ensuring their survival after injection has been a major challenge. In a...