Graduate in Speech Therapy from the Alcoitão School of Health, Master’s Degree in Intervention for Active Ageing, Postgraduate degree in Speech Therapy in an educational context and currently a PhD student in the Doctoral Programme in Child Studies, Special Education track, at the Institute of Education of the University of Minho, developing the thesis ‘The involvement of children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder in preschool routines’.
Since September 2012, she has been a Guest Adjunct Professor in the Speech Therapy Degree Course at the School of Health of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria.
From 2002 to 2015, she developed her professional experience in intervention in School Groups with Structured Teaching Units for the intervention of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. At the same time, she developed her clinical practice at APPDA – Leiria and is currently involved in a unique project for the assessment and intervention of young children with neurodevelopmental disorders, as part of a multidisciplinary team that assesses and intervenes with young children with communication and language limitations.

She has invested in training in various intervention programmes for Autism Spectrum Disorder and other neurodevelopmental disorders, namely the SCERTS Model – Social Communication, Emotional Regulation and Transactional Support, the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) programme, Pivotal Responsive Training (PRT), DIR-Floortime, MAKATON, among others.
In the scientific field, she has given several oral presentations at conferences and training courses on Autism Spectrum Disorder, Communication (strategies) and Augmentative and Alternative Communication, aimed at Speech Therapists, other professionals, parents and children. The area of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (selection of support products, their implementation and monitoring in intervention) has been the focus of research projects, which converge with current clinical practice.

ORCID: 0000-0002-7466-1069