Françoise Brosseau-Lapré

Areas of Expertise

• Speech and Language Development
• Speech Perception and Production in Children
• Interventions for Children with Speech Sound Disorders
• Cross-Linguistic Research
• Bilingual and Multilingual Children

HHS Signature Research Area(s)

• Developmental Health and Wellness

Biography

Françoise Brosseau-Lapré is a certified speech-language pathologist and an Associate Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, with a courtesy appointment at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Prior to completing her PhD, Dr. Brosseau-Lapré practiced at the Montreal Children’s Hospital with bilingual and multilingual children for several years. Dr. Brosseau-Lapré’s research focuses on speech development and disorders in preschoolers and school-age children. The aim of her research program is to identify underlying impairments responsible for the speech production difficulties of children with speech sound disorders. She is specifically interested in identifying predictors of persistent speech errors and later literacy difficulties in children with speech sound disorders, with or without language disorder. The ultimate goal of her work is to develop more effective intervention strategies for children with speech sound disorders.

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Education

• PhD, 2014, McGill University
• MSc Applied, 2002, McGill University
• BA, 2000, McGill University
• Certificate of Clinical Competency, Speech-Language Pathology, 2013, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• Clinical Certification, Speech-Language Pathology, 2002, Speech-Language & Audiology Canada

Websites

• Child Phonology Lab

Social Media Accounts

• Child Phonology Lab Instagram
• Child Phonology Lab Facebook

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

• Summer Research Opportunities Program, Mentor
• Mentoring Academic-Research Careers (MARC) Program, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Current Courses

• SLHS 419 - Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children with Communication Disorders
• SLHS 420 - Introduction to Developmental Speech and Language Disorders
• SLHS 519 - Speech Disorders in Children

Selected Honors/Awards

• Ruth and M.D. Steer Outstanding Teacher Award, Graduate SLP Instructor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University - May 2021
• Ruth and M.D. Steer Outstanding Teacher Award, Undergraduate Instructor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University - May 2021
• Ruth and M.D. Steer Outstanding Teacher Award, Undergraduate Instructor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University - May 2020
• Ruth and M.D. Steer Outstanding Teacher Award, Undergraduate Instructor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University - May 2019
• Advancing Academic-Research Careers Award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association - August 2015

Selected Grants

• Principal Investigator, Speech Perception in Children With and Without Speech Sound Disorder. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (ECR R21 DC016142). Period: 04/26/2017 – 03/31/2021. Total: $447,787
• Principal Investigator, Speech Errors and Phonological Processing Skills of English- and Spanish-Speaking Preschoolers With Speech Sound Disorder. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Period: 08/01/2015 – 01/31/2017. Total: $5,000.

Professional Affiliations

• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2013 - present
• ASHA Special Interest Group 1: Language Learning and Education, 2013 - present
• International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech, 2012 - present
• Speech-Language & Audiology Canada, 2002 - present