McGill - School of Communication Sciences and Disorders

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...

02/26/2026

SCSD alumnus Dr. Angela MacDonald-Prégent gains recognition for her innovative dissertation research

https://www.summit-scert.com/post/breaking-silence-dr-angela-macdonald-pregent-s-impact-on-aac-for-minimally-speaking-children

02/20/2026

AI voices are not stereotypically monotone, and neither are human voices. We introduced a pipeline to prepare and validate expressive human and AI voices that share comparable speaker identity. We also found that listeners are sensitive to AI-generated speech and do not readily accept that an AI voice shares the same identity as its human source, especially when speech prosody complicates the cognitive judgment. Our latest work, published in Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, is now available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2026.100261

02/20/2026

Big congrats to the SCSD PhD trainee, Dominique Louër and her supervisor Prof. Shari Baum on a successful thesis defense on “Speech Pauses as Markers of Parkinson’s Disease".

You made it, Dominique!

02/06/2026

Exciting news! 📣Prof. Nicole Li-Jessen, Canada Research Chair, and her team have published a breakthrough in the top journal Biomaterials (JIF:12.9). 🌟 Their study unveils a novel "nanogel" technology designed to repair swallowing muscles and treat dysphagia. 🍽️🧬 A huge congratulations to Post-doc Dr. Hideaki Okuyama for leading this innovative work! 👏

Read more: 👇 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142961226000682?via%3Dihub

02/04/2026

2026 SCSD Research Day
Friday February 13 2026 • 3pm to 5pm
McIntyre Building, room 330, 3655 Promenade Sir-William-Osler, Montreal QC, H3A 1A3

11/24/2025

Big congrats to the SCSD PhD trainee, Nariman Amantayev and his supervisors Prof. Aparna Nadig and Prof. Karsten Steinhauer on a successful thesis defense on “Hot or Cold? Executive Functions in Autistic and Neurotypical Adolescents and their Relationships with Conversational Partner Adaptations". You made it, Nariman!

11/18/2025

Our annual free Hearing Screening will be held on Wednesday November 26th and Thursday November 27th 2025, from 9am to 4pm.

No appointment needed, people will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis.

11/10/2025

McGill's Voice and Upper Airway Research lab is now recruiting MSc Combined and PhD research trainees with clinical background.

Reach out Prof. Nicole Li-Jessen to find out more about these exciting opportunities. https://voice.lab.mcgill.ca/