Maria Odete Emygdio da Silva holds a PhD in Education, with an option in Special Education, from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Graduated in Ciências da Educação with a specialisation in Formação de Professores, from Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação, Universidade de Lisboa, she has a Specialised Higher Studies Course in Special Education (Serious Problems of Cognition), held at the Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa, as well as a Specialisation Diploma in Special Education (Intellectual Deficit Functioning), carried out at the António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira Institute, in Lisbon. Currently, she is the Director of the Master in Special Education at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, in Lisbon, where she is an Associate Professor, since 2000, and an integrated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Education and Development (CeiED) at the same University. She integrates the research group “Learning, Training and Socio-educational Inclusion” and, within the scope of Research and Learning Communities (ReLeCo), she is co-coordinator of the Center for Studies in Social and Educational Inclusion. She is a member of the Association Francophone Internationale de Recherche Scientifique en Education (AFIRSE) and of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências da Educação. She served in the Ministry of Education, in Gabinete de Apoios Educativos da Direcção de Serviços Técnico-Pedagógicos da Direcção Regional de Educação de Lisboa, and as Coordinator of Equipa de Coordenação dos Apoios Educativos de Lisboa 2, Equipa de Educação Especial de Carnide e Unidade de Orientação Educativa da 3ª Delegação Escolar de Lisboa. In higher education, she taught at Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa, Escola Superior de Educação João de Deus, Escola Superior de Educação Jean Piaget de Vila Nova de Gaia and Escola Superior de Enfermagem Calouste Gulbenkian. In basic education, her intervention focused on supporting students with special educational needs, teachers, families and community, and on continuing teacher training. Within the scope of the “Gulbenkian Qualification of New Generations” Program, she was co-trainer and advisor of the “Know to Differentiate, Act to Include” Project, financed by this Foundation, which took place at Agrupamento de Escolas de Alvalade during the academic year 2015-16. She was part of the Research Project team “Initial Teacher Training from 1990 to 2000”, coordinated by Professor Maria Teresa Estrela and participated, as an intern, in Research-Reflection-Action Project (IRA), coordinated by Professors Albano Estrela and Maria Teresa Estrela. She is the author and co-author of books and scientific articles, published in Portugal and Brazil, within the scope of Teacher Training, Education, Special Education and Inclusive Education.