Raul Prezas
Associate Professor, Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist, CCC-SLP
Office: Speech and Hearing Science 120-H
Phone: 409-880-8172
Email: rprezas@lamar.edu
Education
· Ph.D., Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2008
· M.A., Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2005
· B.M., Music – Vocal Performance, 2002
· B.A., Business Administration, 2002
Board Certification/Licensure
· Certificate of Clinical Competence – American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
· Texas Licensure – State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
· Florida Licensure – State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
· South Dakota Licensure - State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Teaching
· Undergraduate
o Phonetics
o Speech Sound Disorders
· Graduate
o Articulation and Phonological Disorders
o Language Disorders in Adolescents
o Clinical Practicum in Bilingual Assessment/Intervention
Research Interests
· Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
· Children with Highly Unintelligible Speech
· Speech Assessment for Multilingual Children
· Phonological Intervention Models for Multilingual Children
· Working with Underrepresented Populations
· School-Based Issues
· Social Constructs and Worldview Thinking in Speech-Language Pathology
Selected Publications
Prezas, R. F., Magnus, L., & Hodson, B. W. (In Press). The Cycles Phonological Pattern Approach: Expediting Intelligibility.
Prezas, R. (In Press). Multilingual Considerations and the Cycles Approach. In Evaluating and Enhancing Children’s Phonological Systems. Phonocomp Publishing.
Prezas, R. F., Magnus, L., & Hodson, B. W. (2020). The Cycles approach: Expediting intelligibility gains. In L. Williams, S. McLeod, & R. McCauley (Eds.). Interventions for speech sound disorders in children. Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing Co.
Shockley, P. R., & Prezas, R. F. (2019). Thinking with excellence: Navigating the college journey and beyond. New York, NY: Two Creeks Publishing Group.
Shockley, P. R., & Prezas, R. F. (2018). Worldview thinking as a way to understand CLD populations. Communicologist, 45(6), http://www.txsha.org.
Prezas, R. F., & Shockley, P. R. (2018). Honoring all perspectives in ethical challenges: A practical method for preserving human dignity in culturally and linguistically diverse cases. Communicologist, 45(2), http://www.txsha.org.
Prezas, R. F. (2018). Making the right dialectal considerations during assessment: Have we reached a turning point? Communicologist, 45(1), http://www.txsha.org.
Harbaugh, E., Prezas, R. F., & Edge, R. L. (2018). Selective Stimulability in the Speech and Language Assessment of Bilingual Children with Selective Mutism. Journal of Human Services: Training, Research, and Practice, 3(2), Article 5.
Prezas, R. F., & Jo, A. (2017). Differentiating language difference and language disorder: Information for teachers working with English language learners in the schools. Journal of Human Services: Training, Research, and Practice, 2(1), Article 2.
Prezas, R. F., & Edge, R. L. (2016). An alternative to traditional SLP graduate student
clinical training: Exploring collaborative clinical education models with faculty clinical supervisors. Journal of Phonetics and Audiology, 2(3), 1000122. doi: 10.4172/2471-9455.1000122.
Edge, R., Sirmon-Taylor, B., & Prezas, R. (2016). A comprehensive review of the 2016
ASHA Code of Ethics. Journal of Human Services: Training, Research, and Practice, 1(2), Article 5.
Prezas, R. (2015). Evaluating phonological systems of bilingual (Spanish-English) children with highly unintelligible speech. Journal of Phonetics and Audiology, 1(1), e103. doi: 10.4712/jpay.1000e103
Prezas, R. (2015). Bilingual assessment considerations in the schools: When an interpreter is not available. Communicologist, 42(6), 12-15.
Prezas, R. F., Hodson, B. W., & Schommer-Aikins, M. (2014). Phonological assessment and analysis of bilingual preschoolers’ Spanish and English word productions. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 23, 176-185. doi: 10.1044/2013_AJSLP-12-0132.
Prezas, R. & Rojas, R. (2011). Translation to practice: Assessment of the speech of Spanish-English speaking children in the United States of America. In S. McLeod, & B. Goldstein (Eds.). Multilingual aspects of speech sound disorders in children. (pp. 161-164). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Prezas, R. F., & Hodson, B.W. (2010). The Cycles phonological remediation approach. In L. Williams, S. McLeod, & R. McCauley (Eds.). Interventions for speech sound disorders in children. (pp. 137-157). Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing Co.
Awan, S. N., Watts, C. R., & Prezas, R. F. (2010). Systematic review of voice therapy for functional voice disorders: Positive results from a conservative review. Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention, 4(1), 5-10. doi: 10.1080/17489531003643309
Watts, C. R., Prezas, R. F., & Awan, S. N. (2010). Effects of voice therapy: A systematic review that results in limited conclusions. Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention, 4(1), 1-4. doi: 10.1080/17489530903478584
Selected Presentations
Prezas, R. F. (2023, January). Expediting intelligibility for multilingual children with unintelligible speech. Peer Reviewed, Invited Webinar Presentation for the Annual Bilinguistics Virtual Conference/Bilinguistics.
Prezas, R. F. (2022, November). Enhancing and evaluating phonological skills of children with highly unintelligible speech: Bilingual Cycles Approach. Invited Seminar Presentation for Course Beetle, United Kingdom.
Prezas, R. F. (2022, June). Multilingualism and the Cycles Approach: Finding the shared concepts in order to optimize intervention. Peer Reviewed, Invited Webinar Presentation for SpeechPathology.com/ContinuEd.
Prezas, R. F. (2022, May). Traditional Cycles or modified Cycles Approach? Expediting intelligibility for children with highly unintelligible speech. Peer Reviewed, Invited Webinar Presentation for SpeechPathology.com/ContinuEd.
Williams, L., McLeod, S., McCauley, R., Baker, E., Ballard, K., Bernhardt, B.M., Brosseau-Lapre, F., Camerata, S., Cleland, J., Crosbie, S., Gillon, G.T., Hayden, D., Leece, M., McNeill, B., Morrisette, M., Pascoe, M., Pennington, L., Preston, J., Prezas, R. F., Robin, D., Rvachew, S., Scherer, N., Strand, E., Tyler, A., Williams, P., Wren, Y. (2021, November). Twenty interventions for speech sound disorders: A guide for selection and implementation. Seminar Presentation at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference, Washington, DC.
Prezas, R. F. (2021, June). Enhancing and evaluating phonological skills of children with highly unintelligible speech: Bilingual Cycles Approach. Invited Seminar Presentation for the Royal College of Speech-Language Pathology, United Kingdom.
Prezas, R. F. (2021, May). Evaluating and enhancing childrens’ phonological systems: Expediting intelligibility gains. Invited Seminar Presentation for the All Wales Speech Language Association, United Kingdom.
Prezas, R. F. (2021, April). Best practices for working with bilingual children with highly unintelligible speech. Invited On-Demand Presentation at the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Virtual.
Prezas, R. F. (2021, April). Phonological systems of bilingual children: Assessment recommendations and a model for a bilingual cycles approach for children with highly unintelligible speech. Invited Seminar Presentation at the Hawaii Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Virtual.
Prezas, R. F. (2021, February). Enhancing and evaluating phonological skills of children with highly unintelligible speech: Bilingual Cycles Approach. Invited Seminar Presentation for Course Beetle, United Kingdom.
Prezas, R. F. (2021, April). Best practices for working with bilingual children with highly unintelligible speech. Invited On-Demand Presentation at the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Virtual.
Prezas, R. F. (2020, October). The whole bilingual child: Working with culturally and linguistically diverse children with highly unintelligible speech. Invited Virtual Seminar Presentation at the Oregon Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Portland, OR.
Prezas, R. F., & Shockley, P.R. (2020, February). Worldview thinking as a way to understand and better serve CLD populations. Seminar Presentation at the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference, Houston, TX.
Prezas, R.F., & Shockley, P.R. (2019, November). Worldview thinking and best practices for service delivery of CLD populations. Seminar Presentation at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference, Orlando, FL.
Doyle, K., & Prezas, R. F. (2019, November). Accessibility of voice therapy in the Latino Transgender Community: A review. Poster Presentation at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference, Orlando, FL.
Smiley, D., Alexander, D., Benafield, N., Corbin, N., Davis-McFarland, E., Falzarano, A., Newman, W., O’silas, S., Yeager Pelatti, C., Prezas, R., Simpson, J., Ventura, T. (2019, November). ASHA’s leadership academy, leadership community, and leadership mentoring program. Poster Presentation at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference, Orlando, FL.
Prezas, R. F. (2019, June). Case studies in the speech assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Invited Seminar Presentation at the Annual Bilingual Symposium, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Prezas, R. F. (2019, June). Case studies in the speech sound intervention of culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Invited Seminar Presentation at the Annual Bilingual Symposium, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Prezas, R. F., & Shockley, P.R. (2019, April). Speech sounds as symbols: The explanatory power of phonological universals and phonological patterns across human languages. Poster Presentation at the Ninth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Prezas, R. F. (2019, April). Phonological productions of Spanish-speaking children: Case examples and recommendations. Peer Reviewed, Invited Webinar Presentation for www.speechpathology.com
Crumrine, D., & Prezas, R. (2018, November). Identification of Latino children at risk for autism spectrum disorder: Implications for SLPs. Poster Presentation at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Boston, MA.
Prezas, R. F. (2018, November). Speech and language assessment for bilingual children. Invited Video Course Presentation for Medbridge Education, Seattle, WA.
Prezas, R. F. (2018, November). Spanish-speaking children with highly unintelligible speech. Invited Video Course Presentation for Medbridge Education, Seattle, WA.
Prezas, R. F. (2018, November). Increasing speech intelligibility of Spanish-speaking children. Invited Video Course Presentation for Medbridge Education, Seattle, WA.
Prezas, R. F. (2018, October). Services for bilingual children with highly unintelligible speech. Invited Video Seminar Presentation for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Rockville, MD.
Prezas, R. F. (2018, October). Phonological assessment and intervention of bilingual children with highly unintelligible speech. Peer Reviewed, Invited Webinar Presentation at the Annual Nancy McKinley Lecture Series for the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, www.speechpathology.com
Prezas, R. F. (2018, July). Intervention strategies for enhancing the phonological systems of bilingual children with highly unintelligible speech. Invited Seminar Presentation at the Bilingual Symposium, Las Vegas, NV.
Prezas, R. F., & Hodson, B. W. (2018, March). Phonological assessment and treatment of bilingual Spanish-English children with highly unintelligible speech. Invited Seminar Presentation at the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Columbus, OH.
Hodson, B. W., & Prezas, R. F. (2018, March). Evaluating and enhancing children’s phonological systems: Expediting intelligibility gains. Invited Seminar Presentation at the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Columbus, OH.
Bunta, F., Gildersleeve-Neumann, C., Fabiano-Smith, L., Rojas, R.., & Prezas, R. (2017, November). The whole bilingual child: Assessment & intervention of bilingual populations. Invited Short Course at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
Hodson, B., Magnus, L., Farquarson, K., & Prezas, R. (2017, November). Evaluating & enhancing phonological systems: Children with highly unintelligible speech. Seminar Presentation at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
Prezas, R. F., & Palafox, P. L. (2017, October). Serving our diverse populations: Understanding English-language learners. Invited Seminar Presentation at the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association Executive Council Meeting, Dallas, TX.
Prezas, R. F., & Palafox, P. L. (2017, October). Serving our diverse populations: Putting it all together. Invited Seminar Presentation at the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association Executive Council Meeting, Dallas, TX.
Prezas, R., Magnus, L., Pressier, D., & Hodson, B. (2016, November). Phonological remediation
and target selection for children with highly unintelligible speech. Seminar Presentation at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA.
McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Bowen, C., International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech (2013, August). Multilingual children with speech sound disorders: Creation of a position paper by an international expert panel. Paper presented in 2-hour seminar titled Multilingual children’s speech, language, and hearing. 29th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, Turin, Italy.
Prezas, R. (2010, March). La evaluación y el tratamiento de niños Hispanohablantes: Consideraciones dialectales. Invited Seminar Presentation at the Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico.
Prezas, R. F., Hodson, B. W., & Strattman, K. (2009, June). Exploring phonological systems and intelligibility of bilingual (Spanish-English) preschool children in both languages. Poster Presentation at the International Child Phonology Conference, Austin, TX.
Prezas, R. (2009, May). Procesos fonológicos y consideraciones bilingües. Invited Seminar Presentation at the Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.
Rvachew, S., Hodson, B., Prezas, R., & Lewis, B. (2007, June). Encyclopedia of language and literacy development: Speech-sound disorders. Panel presentation at the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network, Calgary, Alberta.
Professional Organizations
· National Academies of Practice
· International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech
· American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
· Student to Empowered Professional (S.T.E.P) Program, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
· Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association
· Communication Disorders Field of Study Advisory Committee, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
· Phi Kappa Phi
· Alpha Eta Society
· Pi Kappa Lambda
