Isabelle Deshaies is a professor at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). After obtaining a bachelor's degree in preschool and primary school teaching, followed by a master's degree in the didactics of primary school mathematics, she went on to complete a doctorate in psychology, with a research profile. Her research project focuses on the teaching of essential prerequisites in preschool mathematics, as well as the teaching of inhibitory control. She has developed an intervention focused on teaching inhibition in preschool mathematics (Mathis : une intervention ludique au préscolaire). Her research work focuses on screening and early intervention in preschool based on the Response to Intervention (RTI) model.
