Our professors

Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth

Accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Epidemiology of childhood hearing loss
• Early intervention practices and outcomes in children with hearing loss
• Cochlear implantation for children and adults
• Services for children and families affected by hearing loss

• Speech and warning sound perception in noise
• Hearing aids, hearing protectors and communication systems
• Prevention of hearing loss in noisy workplaces
• Hearing standards for employment

• Auditory neuroscience
• Markers for identifying auditory processing disorders
• Maturation and plasticity of the central auditory system
• Enriched environment and auditory processing

Lagacé, Josée

Accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Behavioural assessment of speech perception
• Effects of environmental noise on learning
• Influence of bilingualism on speech perception
• Rehabilitation strategies and speech perception

Nooristani, Mujda

Accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Vestibular system
• Audio-vestibular interaction
• Postural control
• Aging

Perron, Maxime

Accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Speech perception in noise (SPiN)
• Aging
• Neuroimaging
• Auditory and musical intervention 

Dionne, Eliane

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• Participation in math-based activities

• School learning

• Elementary school-aged children

• Integrating occupational therapy in schools

Egan, Mary

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• Participation in occupational life (especially following stroke)

• Rehabilitation processes

• Risk and rehabilitation

• Psychosocial and ethical aspects of rehabilitation

• Prevention of work-related disability

• Health promotion

• Workplace health and disability management

• Physical and psychosocial rehabilitation

Martini, Rose

Accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• CO-OP approach

• Understanding tasks performed in families

• Cross-cultural validation of screening measures for the French-Canadian population

• Digital literacy

• Smart houses supporting independence

• Traumatic brain injury

• Virtual reality

• Shared decision making

• Pediatric and adult rheumatology

• Chronic pain

• Self-management of chronic diseases

Turcotte, Pier-Luc

Accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Critical approach to occupational therapy and health practices

• Ecological crises and marginalized populations

• Respiratory health and environmental pollution

• Medical assistance in dying and social justice

• Movement control
• Neuromuscular fatigue
• Aging
• Pathologies affecting movement

Boisgontier, Matthieu

Accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Aging
• Health
• Neuroscience
• Physical activity

Ippersiel, Patrick

Accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Low back pain
• Biomechanics in the context of musculoskeletal disorders
• Clinical rehabilitation
• Biopsychosocial models of pain

King, Judy

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• Cardiorespiratory physiotherapy
• Chronic disease management
• Health literacy
• Mentorship

McLean, Linda

Accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Women’s health
• Measurement of musculoskeletal and neuromuscular function
• Predictive models of successful rehabilitation outcomes

O'Neil, Jennifer

Contact for thesis supervision enquiries.

• Global health, health equity and access to rehabilitation services
• Service delivery, telehealth, telerehabilitation, virtual care
• Co-designed, person-centred, mixed-method and participatory approaches
• Clinical implementation and knowledge mobilization

Pacheco-Brousseau, Lissa

Accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Evidence-informed, preference-informed and person-centred practice
• People’s active participation in health decisions (shared decision-making)
• Musculoskeletal health problems and orthopedic surgery
• Research co-production, knowledge mobilization and implementation

Poitras, Stéphane

Accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Musculoskeletal disorders
• Orthopedic surgery
• Health services research
• Assessment and intervention in rehabilitation

Beauchamp, Myriam L. H.

Accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Bilingualism
• Autism
• Language development

Bérubé, Daniel

Accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Cross-linguistic phonology
• Oral language and literacy acquisition
• Bilingualism and multilingualism
• Child and adolescent subjects in multilingual contexts

• Language and the right hemisphere
• Effects of automatic versus effortful processing in individuals with brain injury
• Naming deficits in aphasia
• Lexical access in aphasia

Zumbansen, Anna

Accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Choral singing, health and well-being
• Vocal health of singers
• (Connected) speech analysis
• Melodic Intonation Therapy

Thomas, Roanne

Accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Disability studies

• Chronic illness

• Well-being

• Qualitative methods

• Arts-based inquiry