Paula Marisa Fortunato Vaz. She completed her PhD in Child Studies - Specialty in Special Education, in 2015 at the University of Minho-Portugal, a Specialization in Special Education-Specific Learning Disabilities, in 2009 at the University of Minho-Portugal, a Degree in Psychology in 2002 at the Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies (Lisbon) and a Degree in Basic Education Teachers, Variant of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the School of Education, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança-Portugal in 2008. She is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Education, Polytechnic University of Bragança. She is an integrated researcher at the Basic Education Research Center/Center for Transdisciplinary Research in Education and Development of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança. She teaches, among others, the curricular unit of Inclusion and Special Educational Needs in training courses for educators and teachers of the 1st and 2nd cycles of basic education and the curricular unit of Assessment and Intervention in Specific Learning Difficulties. She is director of the master's degree in special and inclusive education. Her main areas of interest in terms of research are Inclusion, special needs, specific learning difficulties in reading, mental health.