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Title: Professor Telephone: (787) 758-2525 extension 4401 Fax: (787) 756-3596 Email: albert.villanueva@upr.edu EDUCATION: 2007 Postdoctoral Masters in
Science in Clinical Research 2004 Certificate in Vocology,
Summer Vocology Institute
2001 Ed.D. in Teaching and Curriculum, with a specialization in Hispanic Linguistics. University of Puerto Rico, College of Education, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Courses related with research:
1991 Master in Science
1988 Thirty-six graduate credits
in Puerto Rican and Caribbean Studies.
1983 Baccalaureate in
Arts ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS: March 1997 – December 2005 April 2000 – September 2006
(evenings)
TEACHING COURSES: HLAG 6300 Basic concepts of linguistics,
psicolinguistics and psicoacoustics ABBREVIATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: December 1992 - Present October2005 -
Present(Saturdays) April 2000 -
September 2006(evenings) October 2002 - July 2003 October 1991 - August 1992 February 1995 - Present October 1992 - June 1993 January 1992 - June 1992 PROJECTS AND RESEARCH AREAS: Vocal Function Following Chemoradiation and Voice
Therapy for Project in progress Vocal Function Following Chemoradiation and Voice
Therapy for Advanced Laryngeal Cancer Linguistic characteristics of normal disfluencies
of Puerto Rican Spanish-speaking preschoolers Semantic-syntactic categories of verbs used by
Puerto-Rican children within the ages of three to five years in the
San Juan Metropolitan Area of Puerto Rico: Educational applications A comparative study of
attention, memory, and perception processes in children A study of social
decision-making behaviors in Puerto Rican children with language
disorders - Conducted at the Abraham
Lincoln Elementary School in San Juan, Puerto Rico. PROJECTS AND RESEARCH AREAS: The Impact of Vocal Function Exercises on the Aging Voice: A Hispanics Profile; Study in collaboration with Dr. Joseph Stemple, University of Kentucky: Continued Mentoring and Career Development in Clinical Research Award. In progress. The Voice Handicap Index: Translation, cultural adaptation and validation to the Spanish Language; Principal Investigator; Mini Pilot Project; Proposal submitted to EARDA Office, Medical Sciences Campus, UPR, for NIH Funding. Funding approval for 2009-2010. In progress Descriptive study on voice parameters for Spanish-speaking adults Study in collaboration with Vocal Innovations Co-Investigator In progress Influence of syntactic complexity on the stuttering of Spanish-speaking children.† Watson, J.B., Carlo, E.J.,† Villanueva-Reyes, A. & Byrd, C.†† Poster Session presented at the Sixth World Congress on Fluency Disorders, Rio de Janeiro, August 2009. Voice Disorders in the Metropolitan Area of San Juan, Puerto Rico: Occupational Groups at Risk Presented as a Poster at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Annual Convention November 2007 Linguistic characteristics of normal disfluencies of Puerto Rican Spanish-speaking preschoolers Joint study with Prof. Edna Carlo and Ms. Rosa Irene, Speech-Language Pathologists, San Juan, Puerto Rico Presented at 4th World Congress of Fluency Disorders Montreal, Canada August 2003 Semantic-syntactic categories of verbs used by Puerto-Rican children within the ages of three to five years in the San Juan Metropolitan Area of Puerto Rico: Educational applications Doctoral dissertation – May 2001 Presented as a Poster at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Annual Convention November 2007 A comparative study of attention, memory, and perception processes in children Doctoral Program, College of Education Río Piedras Campus, University of Puerto Rico May 1996 Speech-language pathology services at a Center for persons with Mental Retardation - Conducted at the Nuevos Horizontes Center Bayamón, Puerto Rico September 1995 to December 1996 A study of social decision-making behaviors in Puerto Rican children with language disorders - Conducted at the Abraham Lincoln Elementary School in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Presented by Dr. Nicol·s Linares at the Workshop on Communication Disorders & Juvenile Behaviors, at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Bethesda, Maryland June 14-15, 1994 PUBLICATIONS: Villanueva-Reyes, A., Strand, E.. Nazario, C.M. & Irizarry-Ramírez, M. (2008, Sept). Laryngeal cancer in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal, 27(3), 1-8. Villanueva-Reyes, A. (2008, November 4). Puerto Rico: A Cultural Crossroads. The ASHA Leader, 13(15), 38-40. Villanueva-Reyes, A. (2008, Oct). ¿Trastornos de la Voz? ¿VocologÌa? Estado dela Cuestión en Nuestra Profesión. Organización Puertorriqueña de Patología del Habla y Lenguaje, 26(1), 20-23. Villanueva-Reyes, A. (2006, Oct). La profesión de Patología del Habla en la actualidad. Organización Puertorriqueña de Patología del Habla y Lenguaje, 24(1), 22-24. Villanueva-Reyes, A. (2005, Sept). The Lessac-Madsen Resonant Voice Therapy. Organización Puertorriqueña de Patología del Habla y Lenguaje, 23(1), 26-30. MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION: Villanueva-Reyes, A. Voice Disorders in the Metropolitan Area of San Juan, Puerto Rico: Profiles of Occupational Groups. Submitted and accepted for publication in The Journal of Voice. In press. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Puerto Rican Association of Speech-Language
Pathologists, Therapists and Audiologists American Speech-Language-Hearing Association OTHERS: Member of the Consulting Committee for the
evaluation of Institutional License Renovation of the Carlos Albizu
University, Puerto Rico Higher Education Consultant in Speech-Language Pathology (Spanish Language) to the Psychological Corporation, during the revision of the manuscript of the following evaluation materials: Consultant in Speech-Language Pathology to Head Start Program from the Family Department, for the development of the Scale for Evaluating Language Skills in Spanish (1999). Member of the Multicultural Issues Board (MIB) Last Modified: 09/18/2009
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