
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), created in 1967, is a nationwide University present in four major cities, Porto, Lisbon, Braga, and Viseu. Our commitment to excellence and interdisciplinarity in teaching and research to address complex social challenges, social responsibility, while respecting diversity of our common world, has granted us respectable top world research positions. We are a global brand and we pride ourselves on being members of the International Federation of Catholic Universities, the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils; the EUA – European University Association; the AULP – Portuguese Language University Association; and the Europaeum, a Network of leading European Universities. UCP is a research university characterized by a humanist vision committed to contributing to knowledge and to the well-being of society. The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health (CIIS), UCP Research Unit in Health, develops interdisciplinary research and includes, among others, the nature of the processes, from the molecule to the mind; the life path, mechanisms for learning and neuronal plasticity in childhood, aging and the different needs for care at the end of life, namely palliative care; the relationship of the human being with the world, the stage for the study of language and communication in its multiple forms, or the study of cognition; the global health perspective involving the response mechanisms in health, disease and its resolution.
Lang-Lab is a research line of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health of the Portuguese Catholic University.
The object of Lang-Lab research is language. In this line, several studies and research projects have been developed on language acquisition and development in children with atypical development (deaf and hearing children), on Portuguese Sign Language linguistics, on language genesis and language emergence, and on sign language learning.
The Lang-Lab group of researchers meets monthly to share knowledge and studies or projects under development or to be developed. We try to keep these meetings in an informal environment, because we believe that in this context the debate develops productively and the sharing of knowledge more interesting and creative.
Key persons of the project:
Ana Mineiro is an Associate Professor in Cognition and Language by UCP since 2016, having also had a postdoctoral grant in Linguistics of Sign Languages and Neurolinguistics between 2006 and 2009. She has completed her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Lisbon in 2005. She was a doctoral and postdoctoral fellow from Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She has also produced technical products such as the Portuguese Sign Language Corpus, the LGP Acquisition Corpus, the Language Development Guidelines for Children with IC, Dictionaries, School Manuals, and an AVATAR for Portuguese Sign Language. She has given around fifty national and international conferences and has been a reviewer of prestigious magazines such as Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, and publishing adviser in the area of deafness, deaf education, and sign languages for the publisher Oxford University Press. She has belonged to numerous national and international evaluation committees as a specialist of recognized merit both in education and in the area of research.
Paulo Vaz de Carvalho PhD on Sciences of Health: Linguistics of Portuguese Sign Language in 2015 by UCP, Master in Educational Sciences: Specialization Area: Education, Communication and Language in 2006 by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Degree in History in 1999 by Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa. He is currently an integrated Researcher at the Portuguese Catholic University in Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Saúde (CIIS) and Professor in the Master on Portuguese Sign Language and Deaf Education and also in the PhD in Sciences of Cognition and Language. He is Manager of Laboratory of Language at ICS-UCP (Lang_Lab). He is an Invited Professor in Escola Superior de Educação de Setúbal. Published the books “Brief History of the Deaf in the World and in Portugal” (2007), the book “The Heritage of the Abbot of L'Épée at the turn of the 18th century to the 19th century” (2013), “The Education of the Deaf in the Casa Pia de Lisboa: Historical review” (2019), three textbooks from the PRO-LGP Degree at the Portuguese Catholic Universit and several articles in national and international journals. He is a reviewer in the Journal Frontiers of Phychology. He was a teacher of the deaf from2000 to 2018 and was Coordinator of the Research Unit of the Jacob Rodrigues Pereira Institute (IJRP) from 2005 to 2018. He acquired Portuguese Sign Language from birth due to early contact with deaf children. He was coordinator and jury in several master's and PhD theses. Participated in several national and international conferences, congress and seminars as a key speaker all ouver the world.
Mara Susana Pereira Moita. PhD in Linguistics (Psycholinguistics) at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Completed a degree in Language Sciences from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon in 2007 and a Master's degree in Cognitive Sciences from the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon in 2012. She is an Invited Assistant Professor and coordinator of the Master's in Portuguese Sign Language and Deaf Education at the Institute of Health Sciences (ICS) and co-coordinator of the Master's in Teaching Portuguese Sign Language at UCP and the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. She is a researcher at the LIFE Group at the Linguistics Center of the NOVA University of Lisbon and at CIIS-UCP.
Helena Cristina Horta Sustelo do Carmo completed the Master in Portuguese Sign Language and Deaf Education by the ICS (UCP) in 2016 and Degree in Portuguese Sign Language in 2013. She is a member of the Language and Sign Language Research Lab of CIIS. She started her professional career in 1990 as a LGP teacher at the Portuguese Association of the Deaf. From March 2000 to 2006 she worked as Coordinator of the Portuguese Sign Language Unit of the Portuguese Association of the Deaf. In the years that followed, she played a wide range of roles related to the Deaf Community, as a speaker at several conferences and also integrated in the Task Force of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education to develop a national action plan for implementation, coordination and regulation of educational policies for the Education of the Deaf, Co-author of the LGP curricula.
Lang-Lab is a research line of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health of the Portuguese Catholic University.
The object of Lang-Lab research is language. In this line, several studies and research projects have been developed on language acquisition and development in children with atypical development (deaf and hearing children), on Portuguese Sign Language linguistics, on language genesis and language emergence, and on sign language learning.
The Lang-Lab group of researchers meets monthly to share knowledge and studies or projects under development or to be developed. We try to keep these meetings in an informal environment, because we believe that in this context the debate develops productively and the sharing of knowledge more interesting and creative.
Key persons of the project:
Ana Mineiro is an Associate Professor in Cognition and Language by UCP since 2016, having also had a postdoctoral grant in Linguistics of Sign Languages and Neurolinguistics between 2006 and 2009. She has completed her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Lisbon in 2005. She was a doctoral and postdoctoral fellow from Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She has also produced technical products such as the Portuguese Sign Language Corpus, the LGP Acquisition Corpus, the Language Development Guidelines for Children with IC, Dictionaries, School Manuals, and an AVATAR for Portuguese Sign Language. She has given around fifty national and international conferences and has been a reviewer of prestigious magazines such as Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, and publishing adviser in the area of deafness, deaf education, and sign languages for the publisher Oxford University Press. She has belonged to numerous national and international evaluation committees as a specialist of recognized merit both in education and in the area of research.
Paulo Vaz de Carvalho PhD on Sciences of Health: Linguistics of Portuguese Sign Language in 2015 by UCP, Master in Educational Sciences: Specialization Area: Education, Communication and Language in 2006 by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Degree in History in 1999 by Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa. He is currently an integrated Researcher at the Portuguese Catholic University in Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Saúde (CIIS) and Professor in the Master on Portuguese Sign Language and Deaf Education and also in the PhD in Sciences of Cognition and Language. He is Manager of Laboratory of Language at ICS-UCP (Lang_Lab). He is an Invited Professor in Escola Superior de Educação de Setúbal. Published the books “Brief History of the Deaf in the World and in Portugal” (2007), the book “The Heritage of the Abbot of L'Épée at the turn of the 18th century to the 19th century” (2013), “The Education of the Deaf in the Casa Pia de Lisboa: Historical review” (2019), three textbooks from the PRO-LGP Degree at the Portuguese Catholic Universit and several articles in national and international journals. He is a reviewer in the Journal Frontiers of Phychology. He was a teacher of the deaf from2000 to 2018 and was Coordinator of the Research Unit of the Jacob Rodrigues Pereira Institute (IJRP) from 2005 to 2018. He acquired Portuguese Sign Language from birth due to early contact with deaf children. He was coordinator and jury in several master's and PhD theses. Participated in several national and international conferences, congress and seminars as a key speaker all ouver the world.
Mara Susana Pereira Moita. PhD in Linguistics (Psycholinguistics) at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Completed a degree in Language Sciences from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon in 2007 and a Master's degree in Cognitive Sciences from the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon in 2012. She is an Invited Assistant Professor and coordinator of the Master's in Portuguese Sign Language and Deaf Education at the Institute of Health Sciences (ICS) and co-coordinator of the Master's in Teaching Portuguese Sign Language at UCP and the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. She is a researcher at the LIFE Group at the Linguistics Center of the NOVA University of Lisbon and at CIIS-UCP.
Helena Cristina Horta Sustelo do Carmo completed the Master in Portuguese Sign Language and Deaf Education by the ICS (UCP) in 2016 and Degree in Portuguese Sign Language in 2013. She is a member of the Language and Sign Language Research Lab of CIIS. She started her professional career in 1990 as a LGP teacher at the Portuguese Association of the Deaf. From March 2000 to 2006 she worked as Coordinator of the Portuguese Sign Language Unit of the Portuguese Association of the Deaf. In the years that followed, she played a wide range of roles related to the Deaf Community, as a speaker at several conferences and also integrated in the Task Force of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education to develop a national action plan for implementation, coordination and regulation of educational policies for the Education of the Deaf, Co-author of the LGP curricula.