Emerging issues on the education of SLPs around the globe - different models: Brazil

[摘要] In Brazil the first official undergraduate programs started around 1958 in services for deaf children in major hospitals, although there are reports of rehabilitation programs for deaf children since the XIX century. Until the end of the 1970 decade there were only three undergraduate programs, all of them in the city of Sao Paulo. During the decade of 1980 there was a large increase in the number of programs that eventually reached other regions of the country. Still, even nowadays the major part of graduation and post-graduation courses are located in the south and southeast regions of Brazil. On the other hand, the number of professionals with masters and doctorate degrees also increased significantly. Many of these professionals obtained their post-graduation degrees in different areas - such as psychology, linguistics and education - or abroad. Only in the last decade the number of field-specific master and doctorate programs improved, but they are still concentrated in the south and southeast regions.