A great first day at work in our lab! Welcome to our new postdoctoral fellow Sofia Ribeiro (Project Quantum_Iber_IA) and to Lara Lorenzo Herrera (visiting us from the University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain).

Armando de Lacerda Wing, Coimbra Experimental Phonetics Laboratory Museum opening, 17th September 2026, Coimbra, Portugal.

8th International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research (HSCR), University of Coimbra, Portugal, 17 to 18 September 2026 8iwhscr.uevora.pt/

2 new tools to assess People with Aphasia adapted to Portuguese: Communicative Activities Checklist (COMACT) and Social Activities Checklist (SOCACT) freely available from the Advanced Communication and Swallowing Assessment (ACSA) acsa.web.ua.pt/ platform.

This week, Andrea and Aline, presented our joint work with Brazilian cochlear implant users at the 18th World Congress of Public Health (WCPH 2026), Cape Town, South Africa. Abstracts and poster presentations available from sweet.ua.pt/lmtj/lmtj/MaiaJe… and sweet.ua.pt/lmtj/lmtj/Almeid…

Published today online ahead of print in open access: Patricio, Jesus, Hall, Silva, Borges, Pereira, Lima and Konstantelli (In Press). Quality of life and social relationships in people with aphasia: a cross-sectional study. Aphasiology doi.org/10.1080/02687038.202…

Isabella is an M.Sc. student that is developing a project in our lab on voice quality in children and writing a book chapter on assessment of language development. She is moving to Italy next week . Best of luck with your new life Isabella!

Quantum_Iber_IA International Conference 2026, Santiago de Compostela, 9-10 November 2026. Call for abstracts is open until the 15th of September 2026 at calls.cesga.es/qiia2026

Published yesterday in open access: Maia, A., A. Almeida, A. Ghirardi, and L. Jesus (2026). Longitudinal Case Study of Voice Quality in Spontaneous Speech in an Adult... Hearing Loss... Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology 51(2), 115-128. doi.org/10.1080/14015439.202… @tandfonline

Jesus, L., S. Paiva, L. Moutinho (2026). Os Olhos de Aveiro. In Proceedings of the VIII Congresso Internacional de Dialetologia e Sociolinguística (CIDS 2026) , Santiago de Compostela, Spain, pp. 130-131. Abstract and oral presentation available from sweet.ua.pt/lmtj/lmtj/JesusP…