UQAM awards 4th Antidote Scholarship in orthopedagogy ($25,000) to doctoral candidate — 6 Oct 2026
Marie‑France Pagé, a doctoral candidate at UQAM, has been awarded the 4th Bourse Antidote in orthopedagogy of reading and writing, worth $25,000. The award is linked to a Chair on foundational literacy established with a $1,000,000 donation from Druide informatique.
At the Dictée P.G.L. event on October 6, 2026, UQAM announced that Marie‑France Pagé received the 4th Bourse Antidote in orthopedagogy (25,000 $). The scholarship is part of the Chair on foundational literacy, funded by a 1,000,000 $ gift from Druide informatique to the UQAM Foundation. Supervised by Line Laplante and Marie‑France Côté, Pagé’s doctoral research examines the impact of an intervention targeting graphotactic regularities on spelling performance among students with lexical spelling difficulties. She also coordinates several literacy research projects.