Lindsay Heggie

Major Field
Cognitive Studies

Contact Information
Email: lindsay.heggie@queensu.ca

 

 

 

Supervisor

Dr. Lesly Wade-Woolley 

Research Interests

• Prosodic Awareness
• Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
• Cognitive Development
• Linguistics

Biography

Lindsay Heggie is a Ph.D. student in Dr. Lesly Wade-Woolley's Language and Literacy Research Lab(LLRLab). She holds Master's degrees in Linguistics (2002, University of Ottawa) and Education (2007, Queen's University). Over the past several years, she has worked in various capacities on the study of prosodic awareness and reading, specifically examining how prosody affects multisyllabic word reading, punctuation ability, and musical ability, as well as how it interacts with reading ability and morphological awareness. For her dissertation, she is focusing on the relationship between prosodic awareness and elementary school students' reading fluency and reading comprehension. Before beginning her doctorate, Lindsay worked as a Knowledge Officer at the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Networkand as a Research Associate with the Social Program and Evaluation Group(SPEG) at Queen's.

Presentations

Heggie, L., & Wade-Woolley, L. (2012, July). Punctuation ability and prosodic awareness in adults. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR) in Montreal, QC.

Heggie, L. (2012, July). Prosodic awareness and reading development. Presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) in Waterloo, ON.

Heggie, L., Wade-Woolley, L., & Burtenshaw, T. (2011, July). Adults’ sensitivity to derivational suffixes in the reading of morphologically complex words. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR) in St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA.

Heggie, L., Wade-Woolley, L., & Briand, P. (2010, July). Suprasegmental phonological awareness and multisyllabic word reading. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR) in Berlin, Germany

Clin, E., Wade-Woolley, L., & Heggie, L. (2009). Prosodic Sensitivity and Morphological Awareness in Children's Reading. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104, 197-213. 

Heggie, L., Wade-Woolley, L. & Clin, E. M. (2008, July). Linguistic prosody and morphological awareness in the developing reading of children in grades 3, 5, and 7.  Poster presented at the annual meeting for the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR) in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.

Clin, E. M., Heggie, L. & Wade-Woolley, L. (2008, March). Count on reading: Phonological awareness’ role in the literacy and numeracy of preschoolers. Poster presented at the 40^th Banff International Conference on Behavioural Science in Banff, AB.