Daniel Bérubé

Daniel Bérubé is a speech-language pathologist and associate professor in the audiology and speech-language pathology program at the University of Ottawa. Recently, he collaborated on a SSHRC international crosslinguistic project in phonological development and on a Health Canada project assessing the oral language and pre-literacy skills of bilingual French-English children. His Language + Literacy Lab includes many creative and talented undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows.

Membership

• American Educational Research Association (2012 – present)
• International Association for the Study of Child Language (2010 – present)
• Manitoba Speech and Hearing Association (2005 – present)
• Society for Research on Child Development (2009 – present)
• Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (2017 - present)
• Speech-Language & Audiology Canada (2005 – present)

Professor Bérubé is accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Crosslinguistic phonology
• Oral language and literacy development
• Bilingualism and multilingualism
• Children and adolescents

Ongoing Research

• 2016 – present: Principal Investigator: “Phonological Development of Multilingual Preschool Children in Manitoba” (funded by the Université de Saint-Boniface Research Office)
• 2016 – present: Co-investigator: “Islands and peninsulas: Speech and languages skills of 4-year-old children in Official Language Minority Communities” (funded by the CIHR Catalyst Grant)
• 2015 – present: Collaborator: “Phonetic development of bilingual children in French immersion programs” (funded by the Canada Research Chair in Language Interactions, University of Manitoba)
• 2015 – present: Co-investigator: “Supporting and teaching vocabulary and the acquisition of mathematics in French immersion programs” (funded by the Université de Saint-Boniface Research Office)
• 2015 – present: Collaborator: “An initiative for research collaboration between Wales and Canada for change in social services and health in a bilingual context” (funded by the Consortium National de Formation en Santé)
• 2014 – present: Principal investigator: “The examination of phonological aquisition of Francophone children at risk reading difficulties” (funded by a SSHRC)
• 2012 – present: Collaborator: “International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children's Speech” (funded since 2010 by the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship)
• 2009 – present: Collaborator: “Cross-linguistic investigation of protracted phonological speech development in children” (funded by SSHRC)

• Bérubé, D., Marinova-Todd, S. H., & Uchikoshi, Y. A. (accepted). Longitudinal examination of French and English reading comprehension in French immersion programs in Canada. Applied Psycholinguistics.
• Bérubé, D., & Spoor, J. (accepted). Word structure and consonant interaction in a French-speaking child with protracted phonological development. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics.
• MacLeod, A., Trudeau, N., Lefebvre, P., Beauchamp, M. H., Schneider, P., Sutton, A. & Bérubé, D. (accepted). How community and family support bilingual language development: Insights from bilingual Canadian families. International Journal of Multilingualism.
• Bernhardt, B. M., Bérubé, D., & Mason, G. (accepted). Constraints-based nonlinear phonology: Updates in the crosslinguistic context. In C. Bowen (Ed.), Children’s Speech Sound Disorders, 3rd edition. Wiley Blackwell, Cambridge: UK.
• Morneau, M-J. & Bérubé, D. (2021). Les effets d’une approche littératiée sur la communication orale en classe de mathématiques de 7e/8e année dans un programme d’immersion française. Language and Literacy, 23(3), 19-44.
• Bérubé, D., & MacLeod, A. (2021). A comparison of two phonological screening tools for French-speaking children. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
• Bérubé, D., Bernhardt, B. M., Sirois, L., & Deegan, M. (2021). Promise for multilingual phonological assessment: Speech-language pathologist judgments of whole word match in familiar and unfamiliar languages. Child Phonology Conference, Edmonton, Canada.
• Bérubé, D., Bernhardt, B. M., Stemberger, J. P., & Ciocca, V. (2020). Development of singleton consonants in French speaking children with typical versus protracted phonological development: The influence of word length, word shape and stress. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 22(6), 637-647.
• Archibald, L., Bérubé, D., Colazzo, P., Campbell, W., & Desmarais, C. (2020). Cross Canada Curriculum on Developmental Language Disorder. Speech-Pathology & Audiology Canada, Ottawa, Canada
• Bernhardt, B. M., Stemberger, J. P., Bérubé, D., Ciocca, V., Freitas, M. J., Ignatova, D […] and Ramalho, M. A. (2020). Identification of protracted development across languages: The whole word match and basic mismatch measures. In E. Babatsouli & M. Ball (Eds.), Anthology of Bilingual Child Language (pp. 275-308). Multilingual Matter, Bristol: UK.
• Flowers, H., Bérubé, D., Ebrahimipour, M., Perrier, M. – F., Moloci, S., & Skoretz, S. (2019). Swallowing behaviours and feeding environment in relation to communication development from early infancy to six years of age: A scoping review protocol. BMJ Open, 9, 1-9.
• Bérubé, D., Bernhardt, B. M., Freitas, M. J., & Ramalho, M. (2019). Crosslinguistic acquisition of voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/. International Child Phonology Conference, Montréal, Canada.
• Bérubé, D., Piché, É., Caron, L., & MacLeod, A. (2019). A comparison of two French Canadian phonological screening tests. International Child Phonology Con
• Brosseau-Lapré, F., MacLeod, A., Rvachew, S., Findlay, K., Bérubé, D., & Bernhardt, B.M. (2018). Une vue d’ensemble : Les données probantes sur le développement phonologique des enfants francophones canadiens. Canadian Journal of Speech-Language- Pathology and Audiology, 42(1), 1-19.
• Bernhardt, B. M., Stemberger, J. P., & Bérubé, D. (2017). Crosslinguistic phonological development: An international collaboration. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 17(2), 21-29.
• McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Bérubé, D., and International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech. (2017). Speech assessment for multilingual children who do not speak the same language(s) as the speech-language pathologist. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 26, 691-708.