Claire Croteau

Université de Montréal | UdeM · École d'orthophonie et audiologie

Transportation is integral to the employment accessibility and sustainability of people with disabilities. This study aims to identify barriers, facilitators, and solutions to commuting for people with disabilities, drawing from their perspectives as well as those of employers and transportation providers. Through semi-structured individual intervi...

Background and aims As an acquired communication disorder caused by brain injury, aphasia adversely affects the interaction between a person with aphasia (PWA) and a communication partner (CP). Communication partner training (CPT) is already included in best practices, particularly for severe aphasia, but the effect of this intervention on nonverba...

Background and aims Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a group of neurodegenerative disorders part of fronto-temporal dementias. Aphasia, which manifests itself in difficulty in production and understanding of language, causes a main impact on the life of people living with PPA and caregivers. Research supporting best practices for intervention f...

Engaging teachers in professional development programs can be challenging. Modelling could make it easier for teachers to enroll in such programs because observing someone else may be less threatening than being observed and coached. More information on teachers' perceptions of in-class modelling would be useful in school settings as this professio...

Problématique : L’aphasie est un trouble de la communication qui est causé par une lésion cérébrale acquise. L’entraînement des partenaires de communication (EPC) est une intervention fondée sur des preuves qui est utilisée pour favoriser une communication efficace entre la personne aphasique (PA) et son ou ses partenaire(s) de communication (PC)....

Les personnes vivant avec l’aphasie et leurs proches doivent composer de façon quotidienne et à long terme avec les séquelles de la maladie. Ceux-ci bénéficient d’une prise en charge orthophonique, si elle est offerte en partenariat et se centre sur les besoins communicatifs et de participation sociale des dyades.

Les personnes malentendantes rencontrent des obstacles de communication dans leur vie courante. S’appuyant sur une approche communautaire visant l’autodétermination, l’étude décrit l’apport d’ateliers de partage de savoirs expérientiels sur l’utilisation des TIC entre personnes malentendantes. Plusieurs aspects de ces ateliers ont été appréciés ; e...

En 2018 et 2019, la Société de transport de Montréal (STM) a élaboré une formation visant à faciliter l’utilisation des transports en commun par des personnes ayant des limitations fonctionnelles motrices. Après deux groupes tests, un groupe focalisé a été réalisé auprès d’experts provenant des milieux communautaires, réadaptation et gouvernemental...

Background Public transportation plays an essential role in the social participation of people living with a communication disability. However, the attitudes and communication skills of public transport drivers may influence access to the service. A communication partner training programme offered to public transportation staff may help drivers bet...

Background While communication partner training (CPT) is recommended in the treatment of aphasia, more research on the long-term effect of CPT is needed to enhance the knowledge base about its effects. Aim To measure the effects both during training and maintenance phases of a CPT offered to a spouse of a man with aphasia by using quantitative and...

Purpose This study aims to explore the usability of the andragogical process model for learning to develop, deliver and evaluate training to improve communication between adapted transport drivers and people living with communication disabilities and to identify the successes and limitations of the model in this context. Design/methodology/approac...

L’échelle d’impact des problèmes actuels de comportement (IMPAC) est un outil visant à mesurer l’impact des comportements problématiques chez les personnes ayant subi une lésion cérébrale acquise. Cette mesure évalue l’impact des comportements sur la personne cérébrolésée et son entourage selon cinq dimensions : les relations significatives, l’inté...

Inferencing abilities are crucial to development of reading comprehension. However, few studies addressed those abilities in interventions promoting early literacy skills, especially in kindergartners. The aim of this study was to measure the efficacy of an interactive book-reading intervention targeting inferencing abilities, delivered by a school...

Les transports publics constituent un service essentiel pour assurer la participation sociale des citoyen·ne·s. Or, il a été démontré que l’accès aux transports publics des personnes vivant avec un trouble de la communication est influencé par des facteurs environnementaux, comme par exemple les attitudes et habiletés de communication des chauffeur...

Les bénéfices observés chez les adultes qui reçoivent un implant cochléaire montrent une importante variabilité, particulièrement chez les personnes qui présentent une surdité prélinguistique. Il existe toutefois très peu de connaissances sur l’expérience de l’implant cochléaire chez ce groupe de personnes et les recherches de nature qualitative qu...

Background Communication is at the heart of relationships, especially for couples. When language is altered, as it is in aphasia, communication in couples can be affected. Aims To explore how members of a couple perceive the impact of aphasia on their communication. Methods & Procedures Nine French‐speaking couples participated in the study. One...

Aphasia often restricts participation. People living with aphasia (PLWA) engage in fewer activities, which leads to fewer interactions than before aphasia. Analyses of interactions with non-familiar people in activities of daily life could provide knowledge about how to integrate these situations in rehabilitation and facilitate ongoing PLWA partic...

Introduction En 2018 et 2019, la Société de transport de Montréal (STM) a créé une formation visant à faciliter l’utilisation des transports en commun par des personnes ayant des limitations fonctionnelles motrices et a fait appel à une équipe interdisciplinaire de chercheurs afin d’en faire la bonification et l’évaluation. Au printemps 2019, la fo...

Cet article rend compte de la conférence du même nom présentée au 30e colloque de l’Association des orthopédagogues du Québec à Laval en novembre 2019. Il s’intéresse principalement au premier objectif de la présentation, soit celui d’explorer des stratégies d’enseignement qui méritent d’être encouragées au cours de la lecture interactive afin de b...

The scientific literature documents the links between pragmatic skills, which are related to language use in context, and social skills (Durkin and Conti-Ramsden 2007, McCabe 2005). Indeed, these skills are essential in everyday life at work, school and at home (Feeney, Desha, Ziviani and Nicholson, 2012). For example, they are required when intera...

Background: Communication partner training could be employed to train people working in the community to facilitate interaction with individuals who live with a variety of communication disorders. However, current evidence syntheses are limited to a single disorder (e.g., aphasia) and focus on a variety of familiar and unfamiliar communication par...

Background: Aphasia is a communication disorder affecting participation. Although there are evidence-based practice recommendations about participation and aphasia rehabilitation, it may be challenging for speech-language pathologists to ensure that rehabilitation activities have an impact on the person's participation, in part due to time limitat...

La littérature scientifique documente les liens existants entre les habiletés d’utilisation du langage en contexte (habiletés pragmatiques) et les compétences sociales (Durkin et Conti-Ramsden, 2007; McCabe, 2005). Ces habiletés sont essentielles à la participation en société d’une personne (Feeney, Desha, Ziviani et Nicholson, 2012). Toutefois, il...

Background: Social participation is the stated ideal end purpose of rehabilitation, however people with aphasia often have limited social participation following rehabilitation. Despite growing evidence regarding the importance of addressing social participation issues in aphasia rehabilitation, it is unknown how much these issues are considered by...

Introduction: 15% of ischemic stroke survivors under 65 years old, and 43% of the ones over 85 will experience aphasia (Engelter et al., 2006). Teaching Supported conversation techniques to potential partners of people with aphasia is stated in the Canadian stroke best practice recommendations (Hebert et al., 2016). If Supported Conversation techni...

Background: Access to the community is recognised as a need as well as a right for people living with a disability, including people living with aphasia (PLWA). Although studies have shown factors that hinder or support participation of PLWA, few examined naturally occurring interactions outside the home. Aims: This qualitative study aimed to descr...

Problématique : Pour mettre en place une ville inclusive, il faut s'assurer d'adapter l'environnement physique et l’environnement humain. Les personnes ayant un trouble de la communication (PTC) nécessitent souvent des adaptations humaines de l’environnement, sans quoi elles risquent de vivre des échanges difficiles avec les interlocuteurs qu’elles...

Background: The literature on communication partner training (CPT) includes mainly studies with a small number of participants, because methods to measure changes in conversation pose practical challenges limiting the analysis of large samples. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore a quantitative procedure that would allow one to measure specif...

Introduction: Avec la société vieillissante, de plus en plus de personnes vivront avec un trouble de communication. Or, l’attitude des interlocuteurs qu’ils rencontreront auront un impact sur leur participation dans la communauté. L’entraînement des partenaires de conversation est une intervention efficace pour que les proches supportent la communi...

Introduction : Pour réaliser une société inclusive, il est essentiel de s’attarder à l’environnement humain. En effet, les personnes ayant des incapacités invisibles, tel que les personnes vivant avec un trouble de la communication (PTC) nécessitent que les interlocuteurs qu’ils retrouvent dans leur communauté ajustent leur communication. Sans adap...

Afin de faciliter la participation sociale des enfants ayant un trouble primaire de langage (TPL), il est important de connaître les obstacles ou les facilitateurs environnementaux dans les milieux de vie de l’enfant. Le but de cette étude exploratoire est d’identifier ces facteurs pour des élèves du primaire ayant un TPL. Vingt-six parents d’enfan...

Contexte: Afin de rendre notre société plus inclusive, il est souvent nécessaire de mettre en place des moyens pour que les lieux publics soient accessibles aux personnes ayant des incapacités. Sans adaptation, les personnes ayant des troubles de communication (PTC) risquent d'expérimenter des échanges difficiles ce qui les amène bien souvent à évi...

Opinion/Feedback People with aphasia (PWA) and their loved ones claim that one of their biggest needs is to develop efficient means to communicate better “together”. Researchers suggest that conversation partner training (CPT), a training for a PWA and a loved one aiming to use communication strategies in conversations, would be most promising rega...

Purpose: Describe social participation of a group of children with specific language impairment. Method: 26 parents of children with specific language impairment (SLI) aged from 5 to 13 years and 11 school professionals participated in the study. Data collection was performed with the adapted version for children aged from 5 to 13 years old of t...

Aims The physical, social and attitudinal environment has been little studied to determine its impact on the participation of individuals with aphasia and family members. Participation–taking part in real life situations–is restricted not only by an individual's physical or communication limitations [1] but also by the quality of the environment. T...

Background: The attitude and communication skills of the interlocutor has a significant role for people with communication disorders who frequent public places. Indeed, they can facilitate or hinder their social par- ticipation (Howe, Worrall, & Hickson, 2004). Communication training of a person with aphasia’s significant others is an intervention th...

Communication disorders, including the primary language impairment and auditory processing disorder, may restrict the participation of school-age children in their various life environments. Environmental factors play a predominant role in the difficulties observed in the students. It is therefore necessary to take them into consideration in the se...

most people with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) live with physical, sensory, or psychological sequelae that affect their day-to-day functioning and prevent them from performing their regular activities. a Citizen Accompaniment for Community Integration project (APIC) was implemented for people with TBI to fulfill the lack of access to resources and...

Objectifs.–Les personnes ayant de l’aphasie présentent des troubles de communication qui nuisent à leur inclusion sociale. Un des besoins les plus importants mentionné par leurs partenaires est de savoir comment mieux communiquer avec elles [1]. Pour cela, des approches « conversationnelles » sont offertes et la littérature scientifique suggère une...

Les personnes ayant de l’aphasie et les personnes ayant eu un traumatisme crâniocérébral (TCC) présentent des troubles de communication qui nuisent à leur inclusion sociale. Les interlocuteurs de ces personnes peuvent les aider en adoptant une communication adaptée. Cette étude a pour objectif de vérifier l’efficacité d’une intervention orthophoniq...

Background: People with aphasia face situations of handicap in their daily life and activities for which they were not fully prepared in rehabilitation.Aims: The present research aimed to explore the factors that facilitate or hinder participation according to people who live with aphasia.Methods & Procedures: Seventeen persons with chronic aphasia...

Spouses' perceptions of 21 persons with aphasia and of 25 controls were measured with the Adjective Check List (ACL, Gough & Heilbrun, 1983). Results suggest that persons with aphasia are perceived differently from controls on the following scales: likeability, achievement, endurance, order, and succorance. Also, wives of men with and without aphas...

Background: Aphasia has repercussions on the lives of families who adjust to the new situation of their parent. Most data concerning how family members adapt to aphasia concern spouses, and less so children. However, adult children are likely to encounter specific problems because of the different nature of parent–child relationships.Aims: This stu...

Background: One of the major impacts of aphasia is the social isolation of spouses and their partners with aphasia over time. This consequence may be related to a couple's discomfort in conversing with a third party. In an interview situation, spouses support their partner with aphasia in order to allow him/her to be included in the talk. It is lik...

Background: Although there has been increasing interest in the study of conversations between people with aphasia and their partners, the participation of persons with aphasia in conversation with their spouses in the presence of a third party has not been extensively investigated. Nevertheless, opportunities for such situations are frequent, and t...

Background: Spouses play a major role in adaptation following the onset of their partner's aphasia. Sometimes, overprotection can occur in the relationship and this may be a disadvantage in adapting to aphasia. Overprotection from spouses can manifest itself in conversation when the spouse “speaks for” the person with aphasia and this could affect...

Background: People with aphasia and their spouses frequently meet professionals to discuss health‐related issues. In this situation, which is often in an interview form, various strategies may be employed by spouses to facilitate communication. One of these strategies is “speaking for” the person with aphasia. Aims: (1) To identify the presence of...

The study aimed to measure the perception of overprotection in 21 couples living with aphasia, relative to controls. The 'Questionnaire on Resources and Stress' assessed the spouses' perception and the 'Overprotection Scale for Adults' measured the perception of persons with aphasia. Husbands of women with aphasia did not differ from husbands of wo...

The current status of intervention for aphasic persons in French-speaking Canada shares characteristics with the culture of Québec, the Canadian province where most persons speak French. Although Québec is North American both geographically and in terms of its institutions, historically and linguistically it is French. American and French cultural...