IEAA - Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Audição

What IEAA - Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Audição does

IEAA (Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Audição) is a São Paulo, Brazil-based private educational institution founded in 2001 by audiologist Teresa Maria Momensohn dos Santos and physician Nelson Ignácio dos Santos, specializing in continuing education and specialization training for audiologists (fonoaudiólogos). Its catalog centers on a 500-hour MEC-recognized Audiology Specialization delivered in partnership with FAMESP, supplemented by advanced ('aperfeiçoamento') courses of 90-148 hours covering vestibular evaluation and rehabilitation, pediatric audiology, central auditory processing disorders, and hearing device fitting, plus shorter extension courses (10-50 hours) on tinnitus, electrophysiology, occupational audiology, child screening, and related topics, as well as quick seminars and downloadable reference resources such as the proprietary Momensohn-Santos Word Lists for Portuguese speech audiometry.

The company operates a product-led, online-first delivery model on a Moodle-based LMS combined with a proprietary 'Web Sala' virtual classroom that tracks live attendance, engagement, and class recording. Course prices range from roughly R$400 to R$5,000, structured as multi-month installment subscriptions for longer tracks and one-time payments for short courses, with two-tier pricing (professional vs. alumni/student). GTM relies on direct e-commerce through ieaa.com.br/loja, social media (Instagram, YouTube, Facebook), an email newsletter, and WhatsApp for enrollment support. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, the institution remains privately held with no external funding, and it reports 9 employees and 4,500+ cumulative alumni since inception.

The customer base is individual audiologists and graduate students seeking credentials accepted by the Conselho Federal de Fonoaudiologia (CFFa), with secondary affiliation to a related clinical entity, Clínica Oto Santana. Competitive positioning is anchored on the founder's academic reputation (PUC-SP), MEC- and CFFa-recognized certification pathways, and proprietary Portuguese-language teaching assets — collectively forming a niche but defensible position in Brazil's specialized continuing-education market for audiologists.

Name

IEAA - Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Audição

Legal name

Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Audição

Website

https://ieaa.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

IEAA is a São Paulo-based private educational institution founded in 2001 that delivers online and semi-presential specialization, advanced, and extension courses in audiology to Brazilian audiologists, leveraging a Moodle-based LMS and MEC-recognized credentials via its FAMESP partnership.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Audiology Education

NAICS

Educational Services (611), Other Schools and Instruction (6116), All Other Schools and Instruction (61169)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

In-Service Professional Development (Workshops/Institutes/Short Courses) (EDACAIAB)

Keywords

• Audiology education
• Hearing science training
• Speech therapy courses
• Continuing medical education
• Professional specialization programs

Headquarters

HQ city

São Paulo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Course Fees - Specialization Programs: Semi-presential specialization courses in Audiology with durations of 18-30 months, priced at approximately R$595-824 per month on installment plans. Includes mandatory practical sessions at headquarters.
2. Course Fees - Extension and Improvement Courses: Short-term online and web conference courses ranging from 10 to 120+ hours. Prices vary by course type and student status (professional vs. alumni).
3. Course Fees - Single Module Purchases: Individual courses and modules available for purchase through the e-commerce platform, including recorded content and study materials.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

IEAA is a Brazilian educational institution specializing in audiology training, offering a 500-hour MEC-recognized Specialization in Audiology (via FAMESP partnership), advanced/specialization courses (90-148 hours) in vestibular evaluation, pediatric audiology, electronic hearing devices, and central auditory processing disorders, as well as shorter 10-50 hour extension courses covering tinnitus, electrophysiology, occupational audiology, and collective health. Courses are delivered online and semi-presentially through a Moodle-based LMS with a proprietary Web Sala virtual classroom that monitors student attendance and engagement.

Product overview

IEAA (Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Audição) is a Brazilian educational institution specializing in audiology training, founded in 2001. The company operates a platform-based model offering multiple course types: a 500-hour Audiology Specialization program (partnership with FAMESP/MEC-recognized), advanced/specialization courses (120-148 hours each) covering vestibular evaluation/rehabilitation, pediatric audiology, electronic hearing devices, and central auditory processing disorders, plus shorter 10-50 hour extension courses on topics including tinnitus, child hearing screening, electrophysiology, collective health, and occupational health. Additional offerings include quick seminars, an e-book resource for Portuguese speech audiometry, a historical video library, and an affiliated clinical service (Clínica Oto Santana). All courses are delivered through the Moodle-based learning platform with live web conferences and recorded content.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Audiologia (Especialização em Audiologia) Semi-presential 500-hour specialization program in Audiology for audiologists and speech-language pathologists, covering clinical audiology, vestibular evaluation, hearing devices, and occupational health. Partnership with FAMESP, recognized by MEC, duration 18-30 months.
• Aperfeiçoamento em Avaliação e Reabilitação Vestibular 120-hour semi-presential advanced course for audiologists covering vestibular system anatomy, neurophysiology, clinical evaluation procedures including VNG, VHIT, VEMP, and vestibular rehabilitation techniques.
• Aperfeiçoamento em Avaliação da Audição na Criança (Do Comportamental à Eletrofisiologia) 148-hour advanced course covering pediatric hearing assessment from behavioral methods to electrophysiology including BERA/PEATE, OAEs, and infant audiology.
• Aperfeiçoamento sobre Dispositivos Eletrônicos de Audição 120-hour advanced course covering selection, adaptation, and counseling for electronic hearing devices including hearing aids, implantable devices, and pediatric adaptation.
• Aprimoramento em Transtornos do Processamento Auditivo Central 90-hour advanced course covering central auditory processing disorders evaluation and rehabilitation, including behavioral and electrophysiological assessment.
• Extensão em Avaliação e Intervenção no Zumbido 15-hour online extension course covering causes, mechanisms, evaluation, and treatment of tinnitus including neurophysiological models.
• Extensão em Triagem Infantil e Avaliação Audiológica Infantil 25-hour extension course covering infant hearing screening, hearing assessment techniques for children 0-12 years, and behavioral evaluation methods.
• Extensão em Avaliação Eletrofisiológica e Eletroacústica da Audição 40-hour extension course covering otoacoustic emissions, short/latency/middle/long latency evoked potentials, and electrocochleography.
• Extensão em Saúde Coletiva 40-hour extension course covering epidemiology, collective health, social policies, health systems organization, and public health movements.
• O Mundo Corporativo e a Saúde do Trabalhador 50-hour online theoretical-practical course covering occupational health from industrial to corporate settings, hearing conservation programs, and audiological management.
• Acústica e Psicoacústica Theoretical online course covering acoustics and psychoacoustics applied to audiology.
• Desmistificando o BERA 3-hour 40-minute basic online course explaining Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry (BERA/BAEP) procedures and interpretation.
• Mascaramento 10-hour online course covering masking techniques in audiometric evaluation including crossed hearing, interaural attenuation, and masking noise types.
• Logoaudiometria 4-hour course covering speech perception measures, speech recognition threshold, and speech audiometry including downloadable MP3 materials.
• Momensohn-Santos Word Lists for Portuguese Speech Audiometry E-book and downloadable MP3 audio files containing specialized word lists for Portuguese speech audiometry, developed by Prof. Teresa Momensohn dos Santos for clinical assessment use.
• Videoteca IEAA

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Booktoy EditoraminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2025Partnership offering IEAA students discount on educational books from Booktoy Editora until March 30, 2025. Students receive a 5% discount using coupon code IEAA2025. Special focus on the 'Tratado de Eletrofisiologia' book.
• FAMESPcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Partnership with FAMESP (Fundação Apoio ao Desenvolvimento da Educação) for the Audiology Specialization program. This partnership provides official recognition of the specialization course, which is recognized by MEC (Ministério da Educação). The program undergoes restructuring and is officially recognized as a specialization degree.
• Clínica Oto SantanaminorOthersRelated clinical entity offering Otolaryngology services including diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. Referenced as 'Nossa Clínica' on the IEAA website, suggesting affiliation or common ownership/founders.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo: Santa Casa's Fonoaudiologia program is a São Paulo-based higher-education institution that trains audiologists and could extend into continuing education. It is a broad incumbent with overlapping geographic and audience overlap with IEAA's specialization programs.
• Coursera: Coursera offers continuing-education content globally and could partner with international audiology programs to deliver Portuguese- or Spanish-language sub-specialty training. It is a broad incumbent with significantly greater scale than IEAA in the online continuing-education category.
• Udemy: Udemy is a global online learning marketplace where individual instructors can publish audiology-related courses. It represents a low-cost alternative channel that competes on price for Brazilian audiologists seeking topical refreshers outside MEC-recognized programs.
• Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP): UNIFESP hosts one of Brazil's premier graduate Fonoaudiologia programs and is where IEAA's co-founder earned her doctorate. It is a broad incumbent offering accredited audiology training that overlaps with IEAA's specialization audience, but within a university rather than continuing-education format.
• Universidade de São Paulo (USP): USP's Faculdade de Medicina and Fonoaudiologia programs offer audiology training at scale across multiple campuses and serve as a broad incumbent feeding the same audiologist talent pool that IEAA targets for post-graduate specialization.
• Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP): PUC-SP's Fonoaudiologia program is where IEAA's founder is a tenured professor and which produces many of the audiologists that become IEAA's target customers. It is a broad incumbent that competes for the same graduate-level audiology audience, although as a degree-granting institution rather than a continuing-education specialist.

Emerging players

• EduK: EduK is a Brazilian online course platform focused on professional and vocational upskilling. While not audiology-specific, it represents the broader category of long-tail professional continuing education that competes for the same Brazilian professional learner's wallet share.
• Hotmart: Hotmart is Brazil's largest course marketplace and is already used by IEAA for payment processing. As a platform, it could host competing audiology continuing-education courses from other instructors, putting indirect pricing pressure on IEAA's self-hosted catalog.

Others

• Conselho Federal de Fonoaudiologia (CFFa): CFFa is Brazil's national professional council for speech-language pathology and audiology. It is not a competitor but a regulator whose recertification rules directly drive IEAA's recurring demand, making it the most important ecosystem participant alongside IEAA's actual course peers.
• Academia Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia (ABFa): ABFa is the Brazilian academic society for Fonoaudiologia and hosts conferences and continuing-education activities that partially overlap with IEAA's value proposition. It is a thematically related organization that participates in the same professional-development ecosystem rather than directly competing for paid course revenue.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCkgU7SURVMHKOSV99cLuD7w
• Facebookfacebook.com/ieaa.momensohnsantos
• Instagraminstagram.com/ieaa.cursos
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ieaa-cursos

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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