Adriana Frazão

Biography

PhD student (research fellow) in Doctoral Program in Education Sciences (Health Education speciality) at Faculdade de Motricidade Humana – Universidade de Lisboa. Master degree (2015) in Psychomotor Rehabilitation. Psychomotor therapist since 2013 working with children and adults with developmental disorders and mental health problems in clinical and educational contexts. Is a member of Portuguese Association of Psychomotricity. She has rich working experience and knowledge within body-oriented interventions (psychomotor intervention, dance, bodily movement) connected with social emotional learning. Her research is focused on the design and evaluation of the effects of an inclusive psychomotor intervention program to preschool children with typical development and autism spectrum disorder, with several papers published.