Susan Rvachew


Associate Dean, Director

Research Themes:  The Communicating Mind and Body

Associate Dean and Director, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University

My research is concerned with (1) phonological development from birth through early school age including speech perception, speech production and phonological awareness skills; (2) speech sound disorders including differential diagnosis and treatment; and (3) emergent literacy skills.

I am the co-author of Developmental Phonological Disorders: Foundations of Clinical Practice.

Please join me on Twitter @ProfRvach and my blog DevelopmentalPhonologicalDisorders.wordpress.com or write to me at susan.rvachew@mcgill.ca.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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