OBJECTIVES

– General objetives

• Provide human resources with excellency in knowledge production and higher education teaching with reference to functional health and human communication process
• Develop scientific contributing research for the country in Speech-Language and Hearing Pathology and functional health

– Specific objectives

• Produce theoretical-methodological references to understand the biopsychosocial model and interactions between functionality and human communication.
• Knowledge production based on concrete situations in functional health care, encouraging the creation and proposition of innovative projects under solid scientific bases to solve relevant problems.
• Provide the professional means to scientific investigation, knowledge sharing and national and international group research collaboration.
• Prepare professors to teaching courses in Speech-language and hearing sciences and in functional health area for graduation and post-graduation programs.
• To value and encourage new talents development for research in Speech-language and hearing sciences and correlated areas.
• Improve scientific and technological production standards in speech-language and hearing sciences and functional health.
• Contribute to scientific and technological development in speech-language and hearing science in the regional and national domains.
• Develop leaderships to reflexive and critical acting in different contexts of health, considering philosophical, scientific, cultural and ethical aspects.
• Prepare researchers and professors in speech-language and hearing sciences, able to articulate research, teaching and extension in an interdisciplinary and interprofessional means under functional health principles.