Trelani Chapman, PhD

Email

trelani@ualberta.ca

Phone

(780) 492-8475

Address

2-06 Corbett (E.A.) Hall

8205 - 114 St NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2G4

Educational Background

BA (Hon) Psycholinguistics, University of Toronto Scarborough

MSc Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto 

PhD Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto 

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Florida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University

Research Interests:

My research program centres on the causes and correlates of typical and atypical language and reading achievement with a focus on the early years. I am particularly interested in prevention and early identification and intervention for children at-risk for reading-related learning disabilities.

https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/child-language-literacy/bio?authuser=0

Current Research:

1. Is the Dimensionality of Language the Same For Children with Low and Average Language Abilities? (Dr. Christopher Lonigan)

2. Is Language Associated with Decoding and Reading Comprehension in the Same Way for Children with Low and Average Language Abilities? (Dr. Christopher Lonigan)

3. Linguistic and Cognitive Contributors to Listening Comprehension in Early Childhood: Children with Typical Language Development and Developmental Language Disorder (Dr. Kathleen Peets and Dr. Christiane Kyte)

4. Talking Families: Features of Parent-Child Interaction Across Tasks and Their Relation to Child Outcomes