SOPHIE VAILLANCOURT, MBA, S-LP, is the Associate Dean for Faculty Development. Prof. Vaillancourt is a graduate of both UU直播, where she obtained her MBA, and Universit茅 de Montr茅al, where she completed a Masters in Speech-Language Pathology. She is an Assistant Professor (Professional) and Coordinator of Clinical Education in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders (SCSD) at UU直播.聽聽
Prof. Vaillancourt has a long-standing interest in clinical education and has been responsible for the development and presentation of a number of workshops for the FMHS and Faculty Development on subjects such as peer coaching, introduction to student supervision, the teacher-learner relationship and supervising telepractice placements.
From 2015 to 2023, Prof. Vaillancourt participated in the development of a national practicum assessment tool in collaboration with the Canadian Academic Coordinators of Clinical Education group, co-developing the competencies and skills components for the roles of communicator and collaborator.
At the provincial level, she has collaborated with other speech-language pathology and audiology programs in Quebec to create Clinical Educator Online Training for the Ordre des orthophonistes et audiologistes du Qu茅bec.
She has also led the creation of several clinical educator online training workshops for the SCSD and its partners, as well as a Phonological Awareness intervention program used by the School鈥檚 MScA students and participating kindergarten teachers to teach phonological awareness to kindergarten children. In the community, she has organized speech-language pathology assessment of children in Chisasibi in collaboration with the Cree School Board. She also organized the Early Reading Project in collaboration with Kateri Elementary School in Kahnawake in 2021.
In 2020, Prof. Vaillancourt was named to the Faculty of Medicine鈥檚 Honour List for Educational Excellence.
