The founder of AIDEOR, Eugénie Pettigrew-Leydier, is French-Canadian. She was trained at the University of Quebec in Rimouski, in the four-year full-time program "Enseignement en adaptation scolaire et sociale" and has successfully completed her four internships, the last of which was a four-month internship in remedial education services, under the direction of Ginette Gagnon (internship master) and Dr. Jean-Francois Boutin (internship supervisor). She is an active member of the Association Des Orthopédagogues du Québec.

Since 2012, Eugenie has worked as an expatriate in Canada, France, Australia, Paraguay and the Philippines, helping many children with learning difficulties and disorders such as dyslexia, dysorthographia, dysgraphia, dysphasia, dyscalculia, ADD/ADHD and autism. She has also helped students with a diagnosis of high potential to better understand their strengths and difficulties, and thus to be more successful in their academic tasks.

Eugenie was involved in the creation of a centre for students with special educational needs (EBEP) at the Lycée Français de Manille, under the direction of Jean-Marc Aubry and Cécile Dionne. 

During a two-week professional training course, organised by the Agence pour l'Enseignement des Français à l'Etranger (AEFE), Eugénie met teachers who were practising in different French Lycées abroad around the world. Many of them expressed the potential of the role ofRemedial professionals for the progress of all students.

Due to :

• • Her interest in linking her two origins, Eugénie wishes to practice her profession, which is recognised in Quebec, with students who are educated in French schools abroad;
  • Eugénie wishes to adapt to the situation of expatriation of the pupils by continuing the support in remedial education services, at a distance, with the partnership of the parents, without geographical limits. 
  • With her big heart, wanting to help all pupils, Eugénie wishes to integrate tele-orthopedagogy in French schools abroad, in order to work in collaboration with the teaching teams and to limit the costs of intervention.

The idea of the "remedial education services globe-trotting" was born. This is how AIDEOR was registered, in September 2018, in Singapore. A whole team is gradually being built and growing, according to the demands. 

AIDEOR began 2018 by innovating towards a better way to help all French-speaking students progress internationally: tele-orthopedagogy to help parents find answers to their child's needs by connecting them with experts in effective teaching practices.

Our mission to create rewarding and fun learning environments for students to experience greater academic growth has taken us much further. As a result, we have become the benchmark in caring education where schools of all sizes and French-speaking families around the world meet our remedial educators every day to make incredible progress.

Like so many others, AIDEOR has had a big impact on my life. I built the project and I still have a place in the team, which is being built over the years. I understand the added value we bring: the confidence that everyone can improve and succeed at their own level.

We are seeing remarkable progress.

I see the passion, commitment and pleasure that each Remedial professionals puts into their telepractice. Whether it's interventions, training or meetings, our remedial teachers act with heart and professionalism because they love to see their students marvel at their progress.

In fact, we have designed the network in this way: our remedial teachers prioritise the objectives that the students must achieve, taking into account each student's situation (needs, abilities, influencing factors, etc.), so that they can develop at their own pace and according to their interests, wherever they are.

AIDEOR is your solution.

If you are a headmaster who has come here to find ways to help your students and teachers even more, use the expertise of our remedial educators. You will see changes in teaching and learning practice quickly and transform the current dynamics of your school. If you are a parent who has come here looking for the resource that will help your child reach his or her full potential, know that you have struck gold.

We promote school inclusion.

We understand your needs and those of your students, and all the effort we put into meeting them has a real positive impact, building your virtual network of experts in learning and differentiated instruction.

The impact is both academic and personal, day to day and long term. When you find the right resource, you stop struggling to help your child and your students who understand differently, and you start to make a difference in their lives, allowing all those wonderful buds to bloom.

This is when a real opportunity arises.

I can confidently say that the AIDEOR administrative team - the team that accompanies you, dear parents and headmasters, and dear remedial teachers - is always motivated by our mission to create winning learning opportunities for our French-speaking students around the world.

You are our partner and collaborator now, and we are happy that you are here.

We look forward to seeing all this great progress for our future generation.

Eugénie Pettigrew-Leydier
Orthopedagogue, Director and Founder of AIDEOR