Professors
Permanent professors:
 Aline Mara de Oliveira Email:aline.mara.oliveira@ufsc.br Lattes Curriculum |
Research professor at the UFSC Laboratory of Applied Phonetics (FONAPLI), working in Brazilian and international research groups. She is interested in topics related to Children’s Oral Language, Motor Speech Disorders, Linguistics Applied to Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and the development of technologies inserted in this context. She currently develops the following research projects: 1. Development of evaluation instruments and treatment method for children and adolescents with communication disorders. 2. Analysis of the speech production of Brazilian children with typical language and/or speech development and speech sound disorders. 3. Comparison of early treatments for communication disorders and speech sound disorders. 4. Study of the effectiveness of speech ultrasonography in the evaluation and treatment (biofeedback) of Brazilian children and adolescents with speech sound disorders. 5. Development of technology applied to evaluating and treating children with communication disorders and speech sound disorders. |
 Ana Carolina De Assis Moura Ghirardi Email:carolina.ghirardi@ufsc.br Lattes Curriculum |
She currently develops research in two axes: 1) area: Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Primary Health Care: research related to the conditions of voice production of professional voice-users involving voice-related quality of life, voice handicap index, the prevalence of vocal symptoms and their relationship with aspects of the environment and work organization, as well as specific aspects of oral expressiveness related to the professional context. 2) area: Speech-Language Pathology and audiology in Medium and High Complexity Health Care: Clinical and instrumental investigation of the determining factors and multiple parameters of vocal quality in childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and senescence. This project also plans to investigate the health and use of the spoken and singing voice in a professional context and in everyday life. It also includes studies on the vocal effects of different therapeutic approaches, in addition to studying and developing resources and assistive technologies for rehabilitating vocal disorders and their results on vocal quality and oral expressiveness. |
 Anna Maria Furkim Email: ana.furkim@ufsc.us Lattes Curriculum |
She is currently conducting research in one axis: 1) area: Speech-Language Pathology and audiology in Medium and High Complexity Health Care: Study of diseases and health problems and the use of innovative technological practices aimed at diagnosis and rehabilitation of speech-language pathology and audiology disorders. The research project involves characterizing patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia treated by Speech pathologists in the evaluative and therapeutic processes admitted to a trauma Reference Hospital in the state of Santa Catarina from 2022 to 2026. The study will be conducted in three stages: 1. From the retrospective collection of data found in the medical records, focusing on the following variables: diagnoses, clinical conditions present in each period of care, speech therapy evaluation and intervention, and instruments used; 2. Prospective collection of screening, clinical evaluation, videoendoscopic, and video fluoroscopic data, including therapeutic results and comparison among them; and 3. Clinical studies to deepen the understanding of the impact of dysphagia among these patients with the aim of creating new rehabilitation and/or comfort strategies. Expected Results: The results of the proposed study are expected to aid the understanding of dysphagia and its evolution and in identifying of factors potentially associated with its complications, using validated protocols to contribute to the prevention of pulmonary and nutritional disorders, the reduction of clinical complications and rehabilitation time, and the promotion of quality of life. |
 Ana Paula de Oliveira Santana Email: ana.santana@ufsc.br Lattes Curriculum |
She currently develops research in two axes: 1) area: Speech-Language Pathology and audiology in Medium and High Complexity Health Care: Research Project: Linguistic-Cognitive Disorders: clinical and institutional contexts. This project involves the study of linguistic-cognitive disorders that are commonly found in the context of speech-language pathology. These disorders may occur among subjects who present organic diseases, e.g., complications from neurological disorders such as dementia, aphasia, intellectual disability, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and deafness, or functional disorders, e.g., Learning Disorders, Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, and ADHD, among others. Both the typical processes of language acquisition and functioning and atypical processes are discussed, involving speech evaluation and therapy from a historical-cultural perspective. 2) area: Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Primary Health Care: Project: Transdisciplinary Actions between Health and Education. This project involves the transdisciplinary studies and actions related to Educational Speech-Language Pathology and its developments in the health/education interface. It has as assumptions the studies on Inclusive Education, involving both functional disorders in school and Bilingualism and Deafness, the Medicalization of Education, and Literacy Studies, among others. The proposal involves research on Special Education from the Inclusive Perspective, Promotion of Literacy and DICTs (Digital Information and Communication Technologies) in the educational context, new readers, and new ways of reading. These studies start from a historical-cultural perspective, the new studies on literacy, and Education Sociology. |
 Cláudia Silva E-mail: claudia.silva.c.s@ufsc.br Currículo Lattes |
Currently conducting research in the Speech Therapy field within Medium and High Complexity Healthcare, with projects related to language assessment and therapy, primarily focusing on written language. These projects involve addressing specific learning disorders, considering aspects of child development related to cognitive and linguistic skills associated with the preschool, literacy and subsequent grades. The work directly targets the healthcare sector (evaluation and therapy) and education (screening and monitoring), observing both typical and atypical processes in child development concerning learning and its cognitive and linguistic demands. |
 Daniela Polo Camargo da Silva Email: daniela.polo@ufsc.br Lattes Curriculum |
She currently develops research in the axis: Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Medium and High Complexity Health Care. She conducts research emphasizing audiological evaluation and diagnosis performed in different age groups considering different etiologies affecting the auditory system. She has experience in universal neonatal hearing screening and objective audiological diagnosis performed through electroacoustic and electrophysiological tests. Basic audiological diagnosis by pure-tone threshold audiometry, visual reinforcement audiometry, and high-frequency audiometry. She also currently develops systematic review work with or without meta- analysis in the field of audiology. |
 Fabiane Miron Stefani Email: fabiane.stefani@ufsc.br Lattes Curriculum |
She is currently developing two research projects: Area: Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Medium and High Complexity Health Care: 1) Research Project: Effects of therapeutic elastic bandage in treating temporomandibular dysfunctions. Objectives: To verify the efficacy of Therapeutic Elastic Bandage in the treatment of the masticatory function of patients diagnosed with Temporomandibular Dysfunction (TMD). The research project will evaluate individuals with muscular or mixed TMD using surface electromyography before and after speech therapy performed through manual therapy and therapeutic elastic bandage to determine its effectiveness. 2) Research Project: Emotional characteristics, sleep quality, orofacial pain, and parafunctional habits among patients, UFSC students, athletes, and indigenous people. Objectives: To identify the prevalence of signs and symptoms of stress, depression, anxiety, poor sleep quality, orofacial pain, and parafunctional habits among patients treated at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), students, athletes, and indigenous people, and correlate them with each other. Methodology: Validated questionnaires pertinent to each topic will be conducted with the studied population. The instruments used for this purpose will be: Initial Questionnaire, the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Questionnaire (DASS-21), the Sleep Quality Questionnaire – Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), the Questionnaire for evaluating orofacial pain and Temporomandibular Dysfunctions recommended by the American Academy of Orofacial Pain, the Questionnaire of Parafunctional Habits and Bruxism, and the Brazilian version of the Quality-of-Life Questionnaire (SF-36). |
 Fernanda Zucki Mathias Email: fernanda.zucki@ufsc.br Lattes Curriculum |
She is currently developing research related to analyzing occupational diseases and risks to workers’ health (based on secondary data). She is dedicated to research focusedon using Wikipedia as a tool for educational technology and hearing health promotion. She also researches the field of environmental hearing health. |
 Karina Mary de Paiva Email: karina.mary@ufsc.br Lattes Curriculum |
She is currently developing two research projects (Research Area 1): 1) EPIFLORIPA: HEALTH CONDITIONS OF OLDER ADULTS OF FLORIANÓPOLIS: Participates in this project developed by the UFSC Department of Public Health, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Eleonora D’Orsi. This is a longitudinal, population-based study with older adults residing in the urban area of Florianópolis. The baseline was carried out in 2009/10 and followed up in 2013/14 and 2017/18. In the latter, data on reported hearing loss were inserted, enabling studies involving Audiological aspects of aging and their relationship with biopsychosocial factors, functionality, and cognitive issues. 2) COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE AND LONGITUDINALITY OF CARE: |
 Maria Madalena Canina Pinheiro Email:madalena.pinheiro@ufsc.br Lattes Curriculum |
Area of Research: Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Medium and High Complexity Health Care (2). She develops projects in speech perception evaluation for hearing device users and in the evaluation and rehabilitation of central auditory processing. She currently coordinates three research projects: Instruments for the Evaluation of Speech Perception – aim of developing instruments to evaluate the recognition of speech perception in silence and noise among children, adults, and elderly users of cochlear implants and hearing aids. Evaluation and Speech- Language Pathology and Audiology Follow-Up of Cochlear Implant Candidates and Users – with the aim of analyzing subjective and objective evaluations carried out in the pre, intra, and postoperative period of the Cochlear Implant surgery. Evaluation and Rehabilitation of the Central Auditory Processing among individuals with Human Communication Disorders – evaluate and treat the central auditory skills among children, adults, and older adults with human communication disorders. She is interested in studying the relationship between auditory and cognitive abilities in different age groups, in addition to researching and developing technological resources for auditory training. She is a member of the project Ambulatory of Phonological Disorders and Apraxia of Speech and of the project named “Development of Speech Signals and Competitive Noises for Audiological Tests”, developed at the UFSC Laboratory of Vibration and Acoustics. |
 Patricia Haas Email: patricia.haas@ufsc.br Lattes Curriculum |
She currently develops research in two axes: 1) Research Area 1: COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE AND LONGITUDINALITY OF CARE: MULTIDIMENSIONAL ASPECTS IN HEALTH: This project focuses, in its broadest form, on verifying multidimensional aspects of health (physical, sensory/auditory, cognitive, and emotional) in the child, adult, and older adult population. Knowledge about multidimensional aspects of health for the different life cycles represents a comprehensive care strategy, aiming to learn the population profile, demands, and issues of health vulnerability, especially regarding existing policies and services aimed at these populations, enabling the development of actions related to Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Primary Health Care, providing visibility of these actions with the competent health agencies. 2) Line 2: INTERDISCIPLINARY CLINICAL APPROACH TO PATIENTS WITH CANCER DIAGNOSES: The primary aim of this project is to verify the interdisciplinary clinical approach to cancer patients treated in Emergency Care Units (ECUs) for medium complexity care and hospitals for high complexity care. Secondary health data are evaluated, including clinical diagnoses, which are fundamental for the health management of these patients. Complementary laboratory tests also corroborate the evaluation of the primary tumor, the involvement of adjacent structures, and the spread to lymph nodes and other organs. Radiological Propaedeutics, Computerized Tomography, and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance assist in the cytological evaluation of affected tissues. |
 Renata Coelho Scharlach Email: renata.scharlach@ufsc.br Lattes Curriculum |
She currently develops research in Research Line 2: Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Medium and High Complexity Health Care. She develops projects involving objective and subjective evaluation of hearing and body balance among individuals with and without cochleovestibular complaints and/or disorders. She also studies speech recognition in acoustically unfavorable environments, such as in the presence of noise and reverberation, both among normal-hearing individuals and individuals with hearing loss, whether or not they are hearing aid users. In addition, she is dedicated to the evaluation of individuals with the presence of tinnitus symptoms caused by different etiologies. Regarding the evaluation of body balance, she is interested in studying alterations of vestibular origin through objective methods (VEMP) and the influence of oculomotricity on body balance. |
 Stephan Paul E-mail: stephan.paul@ufsc.br Lattes Curriculum |
Professor of the UFSC Laboratory of Vibrations and Acoustics. He develops research projects and works in technological development at the interface between Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, particularly audiology and voice production and analysis, and Engineering. He is currently developing the following projects: 1) Development of key technologies for a future fully implantable Cochlear Implant, especially an implantable acoustic sensor. 2) Development of the perSONA computational platform for audiological tests focusing on tests with competitive noise and spatially distributed sound sources. The platform currently has modules that allow a) the calibration of different sound reproduction systems, b) the configuration of acoustic scenarios using different sound reproduction systems, c) speech recognition tests with competitive noise and spatially distributed sound sources, and d) the construction of a patient database and analysis of audiological results. In the future, modules for tone audiometry, modules for anonymous intercomparison of patient data (data mining), and modules for measuring auditory effort, among others, will be developed. 3) Tests for measuring auditory efforts, such as pupillometry and electroencephalogram 4) Analysis of the acoustic characteristics of voices on voice signal databases usedto evaluate the performance of patients and hearing aids (PSADs and CIs) |
 Simone MariottiRoggia Email:simone.roggia@ufsc.br Lattes Curriculum |
Currently, in the Graduate Program in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at UFSC, she works in Research area 2 – Speech- Language Pathology and Audiology in Medium and High Complexity Health Care. She develops research with emphasis on behavioral, electroacoustic, and electrophysiological audiological evaluation and diagnosis, performed on people of different age groups, mainly focusing on the early detection of the effects of chemical agents on the peripheral and/or central auditory system. She currently coordinates the research project entitled "A study on the peripheral and central auditory system of individuals exposed to chemical agents and on audiological tests for early detection of these effects”, that aims to study the peripheral and central auditory system of individuals exposed to chemical agents and identify which audiological tests are most sensitive for the early detection of the effects of the chemical agents on the auditory system. |