Title: Instructor
Office/Address:
Speech-Language Pathology Program CPRS 407 Fourth Floor College of
Health Related Professions Medical Sciences Campus, PO Box 365067, San
Juan, PR 00936-5067
Telephone: (787) 758-2525 Ext. 4403, 4401
Fax: (787) 756-3596
Email:
ednacarlo@cprs.rcm.upr.edu
EDUCATION:
Master of Divinity, Evangelical Seminary of
Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology
with an Emphasis in Bilingual Populations, Texas Christian University,
Fort Worth, Texas.
CURRENT ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:
Clinical Coordinator, Speech-Language
Pathology Program
President of the Graduate Department
Curriculum Committee
TEACHING COURSES:
Clinical Practicum (Beginners - PHAL 6310,
Intermediate - PHAL 6311 and Advanced - HLAG 6316 Courses)
Clinical Practicum Seminar (HLAG 6317)
Stuttering (PHAL 6515)
ABBREVIATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences
Campus, College of Health Related Professions, Speech-Language
Pathology Program, San Juan, PR, 1998-present. Academic Coordinator,
Clinical Practicum Coordinator, Clinical Instructor, Instructor
Pediatric Hospital, Early Childhood
Intervention Program, San Juan, PR, 1999-2003
Assessment and treatment of infants with
comunication needs and their families.
PROJECTS AND RESEARCH AREAS:
Disfluency behaviors of nonstuttering
Spanish-speaking adults Principal
Investigator.
August, 2006 - present
Speech rate of nonstuttering Spanish-speaking
adults Principal investigator.
Minipilot study sponsored by EARDA, NIH. January, 2005 - June, 2006
Grammatical functions and disfluency behaviors
in preschoolers: A relational study.
Joint study with Dr. Albert Villanueva and Ms.
Rosa M. Irene, Speech-Language Pathologists. 2003 - present.
Clinical instruction in the areas of fluency
disorders and assessment and diagnostics.
Trained and certified to use the Lidcombe
Program of Early Stuttering Intervention
PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS:
Poster Session presented at the Fifth World
Congress on Fluency Disorders (IFA), Dublin, Ireland, July, 2006.
Speech rate of nonstuttering
Spanish-speaking adults.
(paper submitted for publication, September,
2006)
Presenter at the Fourth Hispanic Congress
of Health Related Professions, San Juan, December, 2004 ‘Alternativas
para la educación en profesiones relacionadas con la
salud: Práctica clínica en línea’ [Alternatives
for the education in health related
professions: Online Clinical Practicum.]
Carlo-Mirabal, E.J., Villanueva-Reyes, A. &
Irene- López, R.M. 2003. Linguistic characteristics of normal
disfluencies of Puerto Rican Spanish-speaking preschoolers. Journal
of Fluency Disorders. Abstracts of the Fourth World Congress on
Fluency Disorders, Montreal, 52, 27, 132.
Presenter at the Fourth World Congress on
Fluency Disorders (IFA), Montreal, Canada, August, 2003,
Linguistic characteristics of normal
disfluencies of Puerto Rican Spanish-speaking preschoolers.
Carlo, E. J. & Watson, J. B. 2003.
Disfluencies of 3- and 5-year old, Spanish-speaking children,
Journal of FluencyDisorders, 5226, 1-17.
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago,
November, 2003. Effective speech
patterns for public speaking.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Organización Puertorriqueña de Patología del
Habla-Lenguaje y Audiología (OPPHLA)
American Speech-Language and Hearing
Association (ASHA)
International Fluency Association (IFA).
Asociación de Estudios Teológicos Hispanos (AETH).
SELECTED LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Online Services:
Blackboard