Guillemette HENRY

Lecturer

Higher Institute of Speech and Language Therapy
Directeur ISO

01/421 000 ext 6639 guillemette.henry@usj.edu.lb

speech Therapist, Graduated since 1988 (Paris 6), holding a Master's Degree in Speech Therapy Research since 2013 (USJ). Structured teacher, responsible for studies and internships for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years. Has taught or continues to teach courses on oral language, communication and language support programs, dyslexia, developmental language disorders, practical initiation to research, mediation in speech therapy, speech therapy practice, and word games. Initiated the creation of several courses: practical initiation to research (2 courses), mediation in speech therapy (2 courses), speech therapy practice and word games, Communication and Language Support Program: example of the MAKATON program, artificial intelligence, specialized communication, and public information. Supervisor of research papers and Master's theses in speech therapy. Was responsible for continuing education. Served as interim director (2021 to 2023). Has been director since 2023.

Education

Degree	University	Country	Year
Master of Research in Speech-Language Therapy	Saint Joseph University of Beyrouth	Lebanon	2015

Teaching at USJ

SpeechTherapy Practice and Word Games

Mediationin Speech Therapy 1

Professional experience outside USJ

Professional experience	Organisation	Start date	End date
Humanitarian mission with the Friends of Sister Emmanuelle in partnership with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs	AFEL	01/09/1995	31/07/1997
Private clinic		01/09/1988	31/07/1995

Areas of expertise

Medecine and Health

Research themes

Evaluation of oral language in a bilingual context (Lebanese and French as a second language), syntax, narration, pragmatics

Evaluation of written language in a bilingual context (Arabic and French as a second language)

Morphology in Arabic

Mathematical lexicon

Publications and communications

"Macrostructure in narratives produced by Lebanese Arabic-French bilingual children: Developmental trends and links with language dominance, exposure to narratives and lexical skills"
by Rachel Fiani; Guillemette Henry; Philippe Prévost. Juin 2021.

Narrative Compréhension in Lebanese Arabic-French bilingual children. R Fiani, G Henry, P Prévost - Developing Narrative Comprehension: , 2020. Chapter published in:Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives. Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina

Plurilinguisme et Troubles Spéciﬁques du Langage au Liban Racha Zebib, Philippe Prévost, Laurice Tuller & Guillemette Henry 1875 Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth Faculté de médecine Institut supérieur d’orthophonie. Octobre 2020

ELO-L: A Norm-Referenced Language Screening Test for 3 to 8-Year-Old Lebanese Children Zebib, Racha; Henry, Guillemette; Messarra, Camille; Hreich, Edith Kouba; Khomsi, Abdelhamid. Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, v4 n2 p24-53 Jul 2019

Towards a diagnostic methodology for Specific Language Impairement in Lebanese Multilingual context: a crossing-tool study. G Henry, N Abou Melhem, EK Hreich, C Messara

Syntactic complexity in language-impaired children: Evidence from sentence repetition in Lebanese Arabic, Pétra, Jordanie, 2013

Outils d’évaluation du langage oral dans les contextes plurilingues adaptés au Liban. 1ère journée scientifique d’orthophonie Rouba El Khoury. Université St-Joseph, ISO, Beyrouth, 2013

Typical versus atypical development of Lebanese Arabic in bilingual children : a pilot study of a sentence repetition task. COST/IS0804 Lisbonne, 2013

Using Sentence Repetition in Both L1 and L2 to Distinguish Bi-TD from Bi-SLI Children : The Case of French-Lebanese Bilingual Children. COST/IS0804 Krakow, 2013.

Using Sentence Repetition in L2 Lebanese to Identify SLI in L1 French and L1 Armenian Children in Lebanon. COST/IS0804 Krakow, 2013.