Dr. Judith JOHNSTON Fellowship in Child Language

Award descriptionFellowships totalling $36,000 have been made available through an endowment established by an estate gift from Dr. Judith R. Johnston (1943-2018) for outstanding Ph.D. students in the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences whose research focuses on child language or child language disorders. Conditional on the recipient's continued satisfactory academic progress in their Ph.D. program, the fellowship may be renewed for up to three years (for four years of total funding). Dr. Johnston was a Professor Emerita and former Director of the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences. She received many honours and awards for her contributions to the field of communication sciences and disorders. These included a Canadian 3M Teaching Fellowship, the Honors of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association, and a lifetime achievement award from colleagues at the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders. The fellowships are made on the recommendation of the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.