Getting to know Paula Pfeifer
Paula Pfeifer specializes in content about hearing loss, hearing aids and cochlear implants. She leads the largest online community of hearing technology users in Latin America and has been writing Crônicas da Surdez since 2010. She is a social scientist, writer, entrepreneur, speaker and content strategist. Paula is a deaf blogger, married to
Dr. Luciano Moreira, an ENT specialist in deafness
.
He was diagnosed with progressive bilateral sensorineural hearing loss at the age of 16. After wearing hearing aids for many years, he now uses bilateral cochlear implant.
In 2013 he launched the book
Chronicles of Hearing Loss
. His second book,
New Chronicles of Hearing Loss: cochlear implant epiphanies
was published in 2015. In 2022, he launched the book
Get Out of the Hearing Loss Closet
. All of them are available in e-book format on Amazon Kindle, also in English and Spanish.
In 2018, Crônicas da Surdez won the
Facebook Community Leadership Program
as a Resident for Latin America. Paula led a project funded to the tune of U$1,000,000 for the benefit of deaf people.
Read more about the residency on the Facebook Community Leadership Program:
- Introducing the Facebook Community Leadership Program winners
- Brazilian wins Facebook grant to create project for the deaf
- Gaucho writer’s project to benefit the deaf wins U$1,000,000
Follow Paula Pfeifer on Instagram
For lectures and events, use Instagram
CLIPPING Chronicles of Deafness and Paula Pfeifer
Paula Pfeifer on Conversation with Bial
Paula Pfeifer in Vogue Brazil 2021
Donna Magazine, Zero Hora 23/06/2019
Paula Pfeifer in Caderno Ela, O GLOBO newspaper, 2/4/19
Veja magazine: Hear all the deaf
Facebook talk in São Paulo
TEDx Talks Santos: Deaf Who Hear, 2017
Gol Airlines Magazine
ABORL Magazine
The Globe, November 2017
TAM in the Clouds Magazine
The Globe
Paula Pfeifer in the newspaper O Globo, February 2016.
Paula Pfeifer in Marie Claire, January 2016 (article on the magazine’s website)
(blog post
here
)
Paula Pfeifer in Zero Hora’s Donna section
Paula Pfeifer on Rede Globo – Encontro com Fátima Bernardes and on TV Brasil – Sem Censura with Leda Nagle
Paula Pfeifer in Vogue Brazil, May 2013
Paula Pfeifer in Zero Hora
Paula Pfeifer in Vogue Portugal
Bodytech website: Writer hears again thanks to technology
Paula Pfeifer in TodaTeen Magazine
Paula Pfeifer in Rio de Janeiro’s Extra newspaper
Paula Pfeifer in Rio de Janeiro’s Extra newspaper
Paula Pfeifer on the TV program Geramundos, TV INES
Diário de Santa Maria
Chronicles of Hearing Loss in Máxima Magazine
To find out more:
- Inaugural lecture at the UFSM Audiology League
- Chat at the Santa Maria Book Fair
- Lecture at the XVI Winter Diseases Symposium
- Sound Connections in Rio de Janeiro 2017
- Sound Connections in Brasilia 2017