Accreditation: Ordinance n. 490, of December 23rd, 2011
Degree: Bachelor's
Modality: On-campus
Shift: full time
Vacancies: 40
Total workload: 4,075 hours
Program duration: 10 semesters
Minimum: 10 semesters
Maximum: 16 semesters
Graduate's competences and skills
Graduates from UFCSPA’s Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Program are speech and hearing therapists, human communication professionals and specialists in swallowing and balance. They will have received a generalist, humanistic, ethical-philosophical, critical-reflective, theoretical-scientific education, in line with the principles and values that govern professional practice and social responsibility. Graduates are trained to work in the health-disease process at different levels of care, with actions to promote health care, prevention, recovery and rehabilitation, as well as in education, in line with the perspective of comprehensive care. They should be professionals with technical and political competence, sensitivity, proactivity and creativity. The focus is on responsible care of individuals, families and communities in the social aspects of health and education, respecting socio-cultural, historical and regional diversity.
Curriculum
|
Semester |
Axis |
Course |
Workload (hours) |
|
1 |
Biological Sciences |
General Anatomy |
60 |
|
Cytology, Histology and Embryology |
75 |
||
|
Integrative |
Introduction to Linguistics |
60 |
|
|
General Psychology |
30 |
||
|
Social Responsibility |
45 |
||
|
Integrative Seminar in Primary Health Care |
60 |
||
|
Humanities |
Reading and Text Interpretation in English I |
30 |
|
|
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
Communication and Voice |
30 |
|
|
Introduction to Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
30 |
||
|
|
Mentoring I |
15 |
|
|
2 |
Biological Sciences |
Head and Neck Anatomy |
45 |
|
Physiology |
60 |
||
|
Integrative |
Genetics Applied to Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
30 |
|
|
Linguistics Applied to Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
60 |
||
|
Outreach and Extension Methodology |
45 |
||
|
Social Psychology and Health |
30 |
||
|
Humanities |
Bioethics |
30 |
|
|
Reading and Text Interpretation in English II |
30 |
||
|
Brazilian Sign Language I |
30 |
||
|
|
Mentoring II |
15 |
|
|
3 |
Biological Sciences |
Fundamental Neuroanatomy |
30 |
|
General Pathology |
30 |
||
|
Integrative |
Biostatistics |
30 |
|
|
Epidemiology |
30 |
||
|
Elective I |
30 |
||
|
Otorhinolaryngology Applied to Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
30 |
||
|
Sound and Hearing |
45 |
||
|
Humanities |
Brazilian Sign Language II |
30 |
|
|
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
Language Acquisition |
60 |
|
|
Morphophysiology of the Stomatognathic System |
45 |
||
|
|
Mentoring III |
15 |
|
|
4 |
Integrative |
Introduction to Neuropsychology |
45 |
|
Scientific Methodology |
30 |
||
|
Neurology Applied to Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
45 |
||
|
Orthodontics Applied to Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
45 |
||
|
Pediatrics Applied to Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
30 |
||
|
Humanities |
Education and Health |
30 |
|
|
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
Professional Performance in Speech |
60 |
|
|
Audiology I |
60 |
||
|
Laryngology and Voice |
60 |
||
|
Practices in Basic Audiology I |
15 |
||
|
|
Mentoring IV |
15 |
|
|
5 |
Integrative |
Computing in Health |
30 |
|
Elective II |
30 |
||
|
Public Policies for Health |
60 |
||
|
Academic Writing I |
30 |
||
|
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
Professional Performance in Reading and Writing |
60 |
|
|
Professional Performance in Adult and Elderly Language |
60 |
||
|
Audiology II |
45 |
||
|
Principles of Orofacial Motricity |
45 |
||
|
Practices in Basic Audiology II |
15 |
||
|
6 |
Integrative |
Academic Writing II |
30 |
|
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
Professional Performance in Orofacial Motricity |
45 |
|
|
Professional Performance in Deafness |
60 |
||
|
Professional Performance in Voice |
60 |
||
|
Children’s Audiology |
60 |
||
|
Professional Performance Project in Educational Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences |
45 |
||
|
Professional Performance Project in Gerontology |
45 |
||
|
Professional Performance Project in Public Health |
45 |
||
|
7 |
Integrative |
Senior Thesis Project I |
15 |
|
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
Professional Performance in Child Language |
60 |
|
|
Professional Performance in Otoneurology |
60 |
||
|
Observational Clinical Internship |
90 |
||
|
Mandatory Internship in Audiology I |
60 |
||
|
Fluency and Language |
45 |
||
|
Fundamentals of Professional Performance in Hospitals |
30 |
||
|
Outreach and Extension Practices |
90 |
||
|
8 |
Integrative |
Elective III |
30 |
|
Senior Thesis Project II |
15 |
||
|
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
Professional Performance in Dysphagia |
45 |
|
|
Technological Devices for Hearing Rehabilitation |
75 |
||
|
Neuroaudiology |
60 |
||
|
9 |
Integrative |
Senior Thesis I |
15 |
|
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
Mandatory Internship in Audiology II |
120 |
|
|
Mandatory Internship in Dysphagia and Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Hospitals |
160 |
||
|
Mandatory Internship in Adult Language |
80 |
||
|
Mandatory Internship in Child Language |
160 |
||
|
Mandatory Internship in Orofacial Motricity |
120 |
||
|
Mandatory Internship in Public Health |
160 |
||
|
Mandatory Internship in Voice |
80 |
||
|
10 |
Integrative |
Senior Thesis II |
30 |
|
Mandatory |
2,805 |
||
|
Elective |
90 |
||
|
Extracurricular Activities |
150 |
||
|
Internships |
1,030 |
||
|
Total Workload |
4,075 |
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* Curriculum approved in 2023.





