Title: Chair / Full Professor

Office/Address:

Speech-Language Pathology Program
Department of Graduate Programs
College of Health Related Professions
PO Box 365067 San Juan, PR 00936-5067

Telephone: (787) 758-2525 extensions 4408 / 4401

Fax: (787) 756-3596

Doctor of Education in Speech - Language Pathology , Minor in Human Development.

The Pennsylvania State University at University Park, Pennsylvania
1971 Master of Science in Speech - Language Pathology,
The University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Bachelor of Arts, Major in Sociology
The Catholic University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus
Ponce, Puerto Rico

Chair, Speech Language Pathology Program

Committee for the Development of the Ph.D. in Health Related Profession College of Health Related Professions, Medical Sciences Campus Puerto Rico Council of Higher Education: 1996, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006

PHAL 6522 Neurogenic Communication Disorders in Children

PHAL 6512 Neurogenic Communication Disorders in Adults

PHAL 6525 Anatomy of the Speech, Language and Hearing Mechanism

Dysphagia

HLAG 6600 Thesis

HLAG 6303 Anatomy of the Speech and Hearing Mechanism

Aphasia

Developmental verbal dyspraxia

El Lenguaje del Viejo, OPPHLA, special edition, 2004

Continuing education course on dysphagia for health professionals

Office of Continuing Education : College of Health Related Professions

September 2006

New Developments in Developmental Apraxia of Speech

Continuing education course sponsored by the Speech Language Pathology

Program of the Medical Sciences Campus

May 2006

Presentation on Dysphagia for the clinical supervisors of the Program of Dietetics

Medical Sciences Campus

September 2, 2004

Presentation on Dysphagia at the annual convention of the Puerto Rico Association of

Nutritionists, Westin Rio Mar

August 25, 2004

Types of sentences used by spanish speaking individuals with aphasia : Fourth Hispanic Congress on Health Related Professions, San Juan, P.R. 2004

Rhyming word and graphic configuration as cues in the treatment of anomia (sponsored by grant WM06 American Heart Association)

Fourth Research Forum of the Medical Sciences Campus, 2004

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
10801 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852
Certified Member

ASHA Special Interest Division #2 Neurogenic Disorders

Special Interest #13 Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders

International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics

Puerto Rican Association of Speech-Language Pathologists, Therapists and Audiologists (OPPHLA)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Member

ASHA