Apresentação Pessoal

Graduated in Modern Languages and Literature – English and German Studies and a post-graduation on document Sciences, by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto, is head of the Inclusion Office since 1997. She participated as coordinator in the following projects:

  BAES – Biblioteca Acessível do Ensino Superior /Accessible Library for Higher Education an on-line database with accessible information produced and shared by 10 Portuguese Higher Education Institutions ( http://baes.up.pt)

          Places – Plataforma de Acessibilidade/Website for accessibility - tutorials both in text and video ( www.up.pt/places).

Former Coordinator between 2011-13, in collaboration with University of Lisbon – Faculty of Science and Faculty of Letters, and between 2017-2020 in collaboration with Polytechnic of Leiria and Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisboa  the GTAEDES – Workgroup for the inclusion of students with disabilities in higher education institutions and is an invited member of the workgroup Braille and reading complementary tools  of INR – Instituto Nacional para a Reabilitação, I.P./ National Institute for Rehabilitation

Areas of interest: Universal Design for Learning; Universal Design and inclusion of diversity