Geneviève Lamoureux – 2025 Forget-Bélanger Innovation Support Scholarship

The Scientific Direction of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal (CRIR), in collaboration with Robert Forget, his wife Céline Bélanger, the REA Foundation, and the Nazareth and Louis Braille Institute Foundation (INLB), has just awarded the first Forget-Bélanger Innovation Support Scholarship – Training the Next Generation, created as part of the CRIR’s 25th anniversary celebrations.

This scholarship aims to highlight the importance of supporting bold and innovative proposals with significant potential impact for clients of rehabilitation institutions supported by the two participating foundations.

The objectives of this scholarship are to:

• Support the training of the next generation in innovation in the field of adaptation and rehabilitation.
• Promote innovative practice/research by implementing new knowledge to meet a clearly defined need more effectively through a project that drives change.

Winner 2025 : Forget-Bélanger Innovation Support Scholarship — Training the next generation

Geneviève Lamoureux has been awarded the Forget-Bélanger Innovation Support Scholarship — 2025 Edition, based on an exceptional application and proposal.

With support from this scholarship, Geneviève will develop training tools to help journalists, screenwriters, directors, and other media professionals better represent stuttering and including people who stutter on camera and on air. The content is grounded in her participatory doctoral research conducted with people who stutter and media professionals. The project includes three components: five video capsules on key concepts for respectful representation and inclusion, a plain-language best practices guide, and quick checklists of inclusive practices tailored to different media professions. These resources will be freely available via https://voixetmedias.org/. By transforming media representations and opening professional spaces to people who stutter, the project aims to reduce stigmatization. Speech-language therapists and other rehabilitation professionals can also use these resources in therapy to address self-stigmatization with their clients.

🎧 To listen to Geneviève present her proposal:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pX9v_SB3XRBlGNQTNC_ULQGBYSQtfOzH/view?usp=sharing

From left to right: Cloé Rodrigue (Director, INLB Foundation), Boutheina Jemel (Director of the School of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Audiology, Univesrité de Montréal), Ingrid Verduyckt (Researcher, CRIR-IURDPM),  Geneviève Lamoureux (Forget-Bélanger Scholarship Winner), Robert Forget (CRIR cofounder), Claudine Auger (Scientific Co-Director, CRIR), Isabelle Sicard (Executive Director, REA Foundation), Philippe Archambault (Scientific Co-Director, CRIR). Absent: Céline Bélanger.

CRIR warmly thanks the REA Foundation and the Nazareth and Louis-Braille Institute Foundation (INLB), whose enthusiasm and commitment helped create this $6,000 support scholarship, awarded annually for an original and innovative proposal from a doctoral or postdoctoral student.

 

 

 

Partners of the Forget-Bélanger Innovation Support Scholarship

From left to right:
Isabelle Sicard (Executive Director, REA Foundation), Philippe Archambault (Scientific Co-Director, CRIR), Céline Bélanger, Robert Forget (CRIR cofounder), Claudine Auger (Scientific Co-Director, CRIR), Cloé Rodrigue (Director, INLB Foundation).

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CRIR | December 12, 2025