Mara Behlau PhD

Mara Suzana Behlau is an advisor/consultant to the IALP Voice Committee and a highly regarded Speech Language Pathologist, Voice specialist, researcher, and Consultant in Human Communications for individuals and companies. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Communication Disorders, with a postdoctoral degree at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. She holds dual citizenship in Italy and Brazil.

She is currently a Professor in the discipline of Interpersonal Relationships – Business Communication at INSPIRE, Sao Paulo. She is also a permanent Professor at the Graduate Program in Disorders of Human Communication at UNIFESP (Escola Paulista de Medicina). For the past 30 years, she has been the Director of Centro de Estudos da Voz in São Paulo

Mara is a prolific author, regularly invited faculty member at numerous international conferences, and recipient of the prestigious Fellowship award for the American Speech and Hearing Association. She is a previous President of the International Association of Logopaedics and Phoniatrics (IALP), the Brazilian Association of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and also the Brazilian Association of Laryngology and Voice. She is the Immediate Past-Chairperson of the IALP Voice Committee and a long-serving Director of the Voice Foundation Board.