She completed her graduate work at the University of Western Ontario, in the areas of Educational and Cognitive Psychology and went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University and the Centre for Research on Language, Mind, and Brain. Funded by SSHRC and FRQSC, her research is centered on language and literacy development in school-age children in second language programs like French Immersion or Intensive English. Her work has a particular emphasis on children at-risk for difficulty with reading, writing, and language and how best to support them in bilingual contexts. Dr. Haigh teaches in the area of inclusive education, and gives courses on individual differences, educational psychology and the reading process.