HÉlÈne Deacon
Professor
Psychology and neurosciennce
Dalhousie University
Canada
Biography
HÉLÈNE DEACON Professor Helene Related Information Research website Link to Full Publications Experts@Dal Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Research Interest
Dr. Hélène Deacon is a Killam Professor in the Faculty of Science, where she directs the Language and Literacy Lab. Her research explores how children learn to read and write, for children learning to read in English, as well as for bilinguals. Our research is conducted with our amazing partner schools and collaborators around the world.
Publications
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Deacon, S. H., Commissaire, E., Chen, X., & Pasquerella, A. (2013). Learning about print: Orthographic processing and its relationship to word reading in first grade children in French immersion. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 26, 1087-1109. doi: 10.1007/s11145-012-9407-2
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Deacon, S. H., Benere, J., & Pasquerella, A. (2013). Reciprocal relationship: Children’s morphological awareness and their reading accuracy across grade 2 to 3. Developmental Psychology, 49(6), 1113-1126. doi: 10.1037/a0029474
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Deacon, S. H., Benere, J., & Castles, A. (2012). Chicken or egg? Untangling the relationship between orthographic processing and reading. Cognition, 122(1), 110-117. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.09.003
