Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: December 12, 2017
• Invested on: November 20, 2018

Janet F. Werker, O.C.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Janet Werker has provided profound insight into the cognitive development of young children. A professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, she is one of the world’s foremost experts on language acquisition and infant speech perception. Her research on the benefits of exposing infants to speech during the first year of life has become a cornerstone of developmental psychology. She has also documented widely used milestones to chart the process of language development and uncovered unique features of language acquisition in a bilingual setting.