About

Johanne Paradis is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Adjunct Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Alberta. Paradis received her B.A. and M.A. in Linguistics from the University of British Columbia and her PhD in Psychology from McGill University (1998). Her research is concerned with bi/multilingualism in children with typical development and in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, in particular children learning English-as-an-additional language from immigrant and refugee families. Paradis studies children’s lexical, morphosyntactic and narrative abilities. Her research topics include how to conduct appropriate language assessments with bi/multilingual children, determining the sources of individual differences in the bi/multilingual development of children with and without disorders, and exploring the role of wellbeing and adversity in the bi/multilingual development of refugee children and youth. Paradis has published more than 90 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 was the recipient of the 2020 National Achievement Award from the Canadian Linguistic Association.