About Me
Eugénie Pettigrew Leydier
I am Eugénie Pettigrew Leydier, an orthopedagogue. I was born and grow up in Quebec, Canada. I am blessed with two lovely daughters which is 2 yrs. old and a 7 months old.
I lived in different countries such as Canada, Benin, France, Australia, South America, Philippines, and Tokyo, Japan which I'm currently living. That's why I understand the situation of the expat children. Also my partner is a Japanese, so my children are in a multilingual environment.
My mission is to help French-speaking students, who are studying abroad and who is experiencing academic challenges, to achieve academic success.
My professional involvement: I am the founder of the multidisciplinary AIDEOR network and an active member of L'Association Des Orthopédagogues du Québec. I lead training courses and co-development groups for remedial teachers, I write articles, I provide feedback for Cadre 21 training and many other great projects that fascinate me!
My Experience
I am the founder and director of AIDEOR. I was trained in teaching of Academic and Social Adjustment at the University of Quebec. In my fourth and final internship in the university, Ms. Ginette Gagnon, who is passionate and experienced in the educational remediation, supervised and promoted her for this educational remediation as a profession which undertake individual remediation needs and cognitive learning process to find specific solution for learner’s learning obstacles.
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After certified in educational remediation, I worked in the different continent and countries: Canada, France, Benin, Australia, South America, and currently in Asia. I helped many children with different kind of learning obstacles such as dyslexia, dysorthography, dysgraphia, ADD/ADHD, autism, and so on.
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Prior to establish Aideor, I worked at French schools and in partnership with those schools to help teachers to understand and developed tailored program for their learning disability student to accommodate their leaning needs in their classes, such as allowing them to use computer for testing, and so on. In Lycee Francais de Manille, I established a program for students with a special educational need to implement the vision of universal design of learning which includes student and collaborates with parents and various stakeholders.
During these works, I learned that expat parents are struggling to find good quality and consistent educational materials. I could relate these challenges of expat parents based on many years of her own experiences of living in abroad. I also understands that multi-stakeholder partnership encompassing child, parents, teacher, and learning specialist, for the child with learning disability is even more challenging. Her desire to support student in such circumstances to be able to achieve academic success became very strong.
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