Marie‑France Pagé Receives the 4th Antidote Scholarship in Remedial Education

Druide informatique is pleased to announce that Marie‑France Pagé has been awarded the fourth Antidote Scholarship in Remedial Education for reading and writing. Pagé is a PhD candidate at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), under the supervision of Professors Line Laplante and Marie-France Côté, in the Department of Language Didactics. The $25,000 scholarship is awarded as part of the research chair program for foundation learning in literacy, established through a donation made to the Fondation de l’UQAM by Druide informatique.

For her doctoral studies, Pagé examined the effects of an intervention targeting graphotactic regularities on the performance of students with lexical spelling difficulties. She is also involved in coordinating and carrying out several research activities and projects focused on foundational literacy skills. She is an educational consultant at the Centre de services scolaire de Saint-Hyacinthe and has been the president of the Association des orthopédagogues du Québec since 2025.

The Antidote Scholarship in Remedial Education is awarded annually to a student in UQAM’s Faculty of Education whose thesis or doctoral project relates to remedial education or to learning difficulties in reading and writing. It is granted as part of the research chair program for foundation learning in literacy, established through a $1 million donation from Druide on the 25th anniversary of the launch of its Antidote software.

Millions of people use Antidote to improve the quality of their writing in both English and French. Its corrector, dictionaries and guides also support those learning to write. Among other benefits, Antidote can counterbalance the varying degrees of spelling deficits associated with dyslexia, and Druide is working diligently on its development. Moreover, some of the Chair’s work could guide this development to provide additional support to these learners.

Druide informatique has been specializing in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics since 1993. The company produces and markets Antidote, the most comprehensive writing-assistance software available for English and French, as well as Typing Pal, the renowned typing-tutorial application. In addition to its software, Druide also publishes French-language literature and reference works through its subsidiary, Éditions Druide.