Daniel Bérubé

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

Professor Bérubé is also a passionate mountain adventurer, whether hiking, skiing or biking.

Personal and professional associations

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

Professor Bérubé is accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Crosslinguistic phonology
• Oral language and literacy development
• Bilingualism and multilingualism
• Child and adolescent speakers in multilingual settings

Research projects

• 2024: Principal investigator, “Benchmarking bilingualism: An investigation into the phonology, vocabulary, and reading skills of young bilingual children in Canada” (SSHRC grant)
• 2023 to present: Co-investigator, “Children’s Speech Development in Complex Words Online” (SSHRC grant)
• 2022 to present: Principal investigator, “Validation d’un protocole pour l’évaluation des sons de la parole par les orthophonistes vivant en communautés francophones en situation minoritaire” (CNFS grant)
• 2021 to present: Principal investigator, “Développement du langage oral et de la lecture des enfants bilingues en communautés francophones en situation minoritaire” (Health Canada grant)
• 2020 to present: Co-investigator, “Identification of whole word accuracy in preschool children’s speech by speech-language pathologist listeners in both familiar and unfamiliar languages” (SSHRC grant)
• 2017 to present: Contributor, “International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech” (Australian Research Council Future Fellowship)

• Bernhardt, B. M., Bérubé, D., Mason, G., Stemberger, J. (accepted). Phonological theories and the clinical context. In A. Jardine & P. de Lacy (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Phonology (2nd ed). Cambridge University Press.
• MacLeod, A. A. N., Brosseau-Lapré, F., & Bérubé, D. (accepted). Canadian English-French bilingual speech development. In S. McLeod (Ed), Oxford handbook of speech development in languages of the world. Oxford, Eng: Oxford University Press.
• MacLeod, A. A. N., Bérubé, D., Rvachew, S., & Brosseau-Lapré, F. (accepted). Canadian English bilingual speech development. In S. McLeod (Ed), Oxford handbook of speech development in languages of the world. Oxford, Eng: Oxford University Press.
• Bernhardt, B. M., Stemberger, J., Mason, G., & Bérubé, D. (2024). Contraints-based nonlinear phonological theories in clinical phonology across languages. In N. Müller, M. Ball, & L. Spencer (Eds.), Handbook of Clinical Linguistics, 2nd edition. Wiley Publishers, Hoboken, NJ.
• Bernhardt, B. M., Bérubé, D., Ciocca, V., Stemberger, J., Ayyad, H., Sygal, N., Belzile-Lapalme, C., & Ardillez, J. (accepted). Approaching phonological assessment in multilingual contexts: Speech-language pathologists judgements of whole word match across languages. Proceedings from the APSSLH Symposium, Speech-Language and Hearing.
• MacLeod, A., Trudeau, N., Lefebvre, P., Beauchamp, M. H., Schneider, P., Sutton, A. & Bérubé, D. (2024). How community and family support bilingual language development: Insights from bilingual Canadian families. International Journal of Multilingualism, 21(1), 439-463.
• Bernhardt, B. M., Mason, G., & Bérubé, D. (2023). Multilingualism and language variation. In C. Bowen (Ed.) Children's speech sound disorders 3rd Edition (pp.472-510). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-119-74316-3.
• Bérubé, D. (2023). Screening, evaluation, and intervention for children with language disorders. Ontario Ministry of Education.
• Bérubé, D., Marinova-Todd, S. H., & Uchikoshi, Y. A. (2022). A longitudinal examination of French and English reading comprehension in French immersion programs in Canada. Applied Psycholinguistics, 43(3), 607-640.
• Bérubé, D., & Spoor, J. (2022). Word structure and consonant interaction in a French-speaking child with protracted phonological development. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 36(8), 696-707.
• Bérubé, D., & MacLeod, A. (2022). A comparison of two phonological screening tools for French-speaking children. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 24(1), 22-32.
• 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., 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.