Revista Chilena de Fonoaudiología

Editorial Team

Journal Manager

Sara Tapia
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Director and academic of the Departamento de Fonoaudiología. Professor Tapia obtained her Master's degree in Community Psychology from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Chile and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Psychoexpressive Therapies and Art Therapy. In addition to being the author and co-author of at least 10 articles, she has contributed to book chapters and the creation and dissemination of educational manuals. Additionally, she consistently serves as a reviewer for articles in various national and international journals. As an active researcher, Professor Tapia holds the position of Director of the Department of Speech Therapy at the University of Chile. Her research focuses primarily on analyzing speech therapy practices in different areas of the healthcare system, as well as the role and competencies for work in palliative care and end-of-life care.

Editor in Chief

Andrea Helo
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Andrea Helo is an associate professor in the Department of Speech Therapy and the Department of Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile. Her research focuses on the role of cognitive skills in vocabulary development in children with typical and atypical development. She has served as the editor-in-chief of the Revista Chilena de Fonoaudiología since 2018.

Co-editor in Chief

Carmen Julia Coloma
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Dra in Psychology from the University of Granada and tenured professor in the Department of Speech Therapy and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Education at the University of Chile. Her main research line addresses reading in children with language disorders. Currently, she is studying and proposing intervention programs to support linguistic skills necessary for reading. Her research work has been disseminated in various national and international publications.

Section Editors [and scientific subject]

Adrian Fuente [audiology]
Université de Montréal, Canada

Dr Fuente is an Associate Professor at the School of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal and a lab director in the centre de recherche de l’Institut universtaire de gériatrie de Montréal. In addition, Dr Fuente is a Full Professor at the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Universidad de Chile. Adrian completed is PhD at the University of Hong Kong where he investigated the effects of organic solvents on the human auditory system with a special emphasis on the central auditory nervous system. He then moved to Australia where he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Queensland. As a postdoctoral research fellow he investigated age-related changes in the central auditory nervous system. Later at this University he became an NHMRC senior research officer. Dr Fuente has served as an editor for the audiology section of Revista Chilena de Fonoaudiología since 2019.

Macarena Bowen [audiology]
Universidad de Chile, Chile.

Assistant professor at the Departamento de Fonoaudiología, Universidad de Chile. Audiologist with a Diploma in Clinical Audiology and PhD candidate in Linguistics - Audiology Section, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia. Master in Neuroscience from Universidad de Chile, where they investigate the role of auditory efferent system in crossmodal selective attention. They PhD project aims to characterize hidden hearing loss by means of objective and psychoacoustics measures in young people. At Universidad de Chile, they research focused on recreational noise-induced hearing loss and it's perceptual consequences in young and adults. In addition, they investigate clinical practices in tinnitus management in Chile and the evidence on tinnitus treatment.

Juan Pablo Faúndez [audiology]
The University of Melbourne, Australia

Dr Faúndez is a teaching and research academic in the Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Juan Pablo’s clinical degrees in Audiology and Speech Pathology, and his Master in Neurosciences were awarded by Universidad de Chile. Juan Pablo obtained his PhD from Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia. His doctoral dissertation focused at developing clinical applications of EEG-based techniques for the objective study of binaural processing. His postdoctoral research projects explored the application of objective and subjective measures for the detection of ‘hidden hearing loss’, and the use of spectro temporal modulations on the identification of emotions in speech in hearing aids’ users. Juan Pablo has more than a decade of experience as a Clinical Audiologist in the areas of complex hearing and vestibular diagnosis, aural and vestibular rehabilitation in adults, and as a clinical researcher on vestibular disorders.

Marco Guzmán [voice]
Universidad de Los Andes, Chile.

Dr. Guzman is a voice pathologist and singer with more than fifteen years of clinical and academic experience. He received his Ph.D. in Speech Techniques and Vocology from the University of Tampere, Finland.  He also holds a certification in vocology from the University of Iowa and National Center for Voice and Speech (USA). Dr. Guzman joined the faculty at the Universidad de los Andes, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in 2018 following a 15-year academic career at the University of Chile. He also works as a clinician in the Department of Otolaryngology, Las Condes Clinic, Chile. Moreover, He joined the University of Tampere (Finland) as Adjunct Professor in 2018. Dr. Guzman is also a Guest Lecturer at Dr. Katherine Verdolini Voice Lab meetings, University of Delaware. USA.

Marcelo Saldías [voz]
Universidad de Chile, Chile.

Speech and Language Therapist graduated from the University of Chile. Ph.D. in Vocology (Tampere University, Finland). Assistant Professor at the Departamento de Fonoaudiología of the University of Chile. Certified Voice Teacher by the New York Vocal Coaching. Prof. Saldías holds a Diploma in Vocology, a Diploma in Quantitative and Qualitative Methodology Applied to Health Research, and a Diploma in Ethics of Scientific Research with Human Beings (Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile). Also, Prof. Saldías has been certified in gender affirmative voice care for trans and/or non-binary people by The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). He is a founding member of the Diverse Voices Lab, the Chilean Association of Singing Teachers (APROCAN Chile, A.G.), and the Chilean Chapter of the Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA). He is a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and the Pan American Vocology Association, and he is part of the Chilean Trans Health Block Articulation. Prof. Saldías is a researcher on culturally responsive voice care for trans and/or non-binary people, vocal economy in voice professionals, and vocal tract configurations used in contemporary singing. He has been a speaker at different conferences such as The Voice Foundation, the Pan American Vocology Association, and the Pan European Voice Conference (PEVoC). Prof. Saldías is a member of the scientific mentoring team and the review committee of papers of the Pan American Vocology Association symposium. He has participated as a peer reviewer in different scientific journals, both nationally and internationally.

Drina Álvarez [orofacial myofunctional therapy/disorders]
Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile.

Speech-Language Pathologist and Teaching Coordinator at the Gantz Foundation, Hospital del Niño con Fisura in Santiago de Chile. She is a Clinical Specialist in Cleft Lip and Palate and Associated Craniofacial Malformations, working in this area and in Orofacial Motor Functions since 2002. She participated in the Committee of Experts for the drafting of the "AUGE Protocol for Cleft Lip and Palate Pathology in Children," Ministry of Health, Chile, in 2005 and the Clinical Guidelines in 2009 and 2015. She is a member of the Latin American Craniofacial Association (LATICFA). She has researched and published several articles in this field and has conducted national and Latin American training sessions in this area together with other professors. She has served as a reviewer for the International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology since 2017. She holds a Master's degree in Cranio-Cervical, Cranio-Mandibular Pathophysiology and Facial Pain, and two Diplomas. She is a lecturer at the School of Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Chile and the University of Development (undergraduate and postgraduate), where she has been part of the Diploma in Orofacial Motor Functions since 2015, and is a guest postgraduate lecturer at the University of the Andes, in the Faculty of Dentistry. She is the Administrative Director and Clinical Speech-Language Pathologist at the Interdisciplinary Multiprofessional Care Center "Sentidos".

Silvia Martínez-Ferreiro [communication and cognition disorders in adults]
Universidad de la Coruña, España.

Dr. Martínez-Ferreiro is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Neuro-Psycho-Linguistics Lab at the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès. Her  research examines acquired language disorders cross-linguistically focusing on the characterization of underrepresented languages and the adaptation of assessment tools. After completing her PhD in Cognitive Science and Language at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona in 2010, where she was awarded the Extraordinary PhD prize, she served as a researcher at different European universities including the University of Copenhagen, the University of Groningen, and the University of Barcelona. Dr. Martínez-Ferreiro has been a reviewer for different indexed international journals since 2009 and she has served as an editor of the series Studies in Language and Mind since 2016. She has joined the editorial team of the Revista Chilena de Fonoaudiología in 2021.

Lilian Toledo [communication and cognition disorders in adults]
Universidad de Chile, Chile.

Speech-Language Pathologist, Associate Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Chile and in the Department of Neurology-Neurosurgery at the Clinical Hospital of the University of Chile. Holds a Master's degree in Biological Sciences with a mention in Neurosciences from the University of Chile. Specialist in language, speech, and swallowing disorders in adults at the University of Chile. Currently, her research focuses on rehabilitation for individuals with strokes, quality of life, and functional communication. She has served as president of the Chilean Society of Speech-Language Pathology and is an active member of the Chilean Association of Cerebrovascular Diseases.

Carlos Rojas [communication and cognition disorders in adults]
Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile.

Dr. Rojas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Bío-Bío. His research focuses on lexical processing and aging, an area in which he has published numerous scientific articles. He currently leads a Fondecyt Initiation project and the Communication & Cognition Research Group at the University of Bío-Bío. Additionally, he serves as a reviewer for journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, Sage Open, and several Latin American journals.

Rodrigo Tobar [deglutition]
Universidad de Chile, Chile.

Rodolfo Peña [deglutition]
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison (United States), Master in Speech and Language Disorders (Universidad de Talca, Chile), and Speech and Language Pathologist (Universidad de Concepción, Chile). Hi is currently a postdoc fellow in the Swallowing and Salivary Bioscience Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His research interests are focused on the relationship between food properties and swallowing, as well as, food oral processing.

Javier Hurtado [deglutition]
University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands

Speech and Language Therapist with more than 17 years of clinical, academic, and research experience. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Speech Therapy at the University of Chile and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) in the Netherlands. His research focuses on dysphagia, sarcopenia, and frailty in patients with head and neck cancer. He holds a master's degree in Swallowing Disorders from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) and in University Pedagogy and Higher Education from the Universidad Mayor (Chile). In addition, he is accredited as an FEES Practitioner by the ESSD and has completed clinical fellowships at the UMCG and Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC). He holds the University Teaching Qualification (BKO) certification in Dutch university teaching. In terms of his academic and scientific service, he is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Head and Neck, BMC Geriatrics, Dysphagia, and Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, and, since 2025, editor of the Swallowing section of the Chilean Journal of Speech Therapy.

Manuel del Campo [training and job speech-language therapy]

Director of the Speech Therapy program at Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez. He graduated in 2012 from the Universidad del Bío-Bío and obtained a Master's degree in Public Health, mention in Epidemiology, from the Andrés Bello Public Health Institute in 2018. He has studies in Methods and Determinants of Health, Health Policy Management, Epidemiology and Clinical Research. He has served as an academic for several professional schools at the undergraduate level and has been part of two postgraduate academic cores. Additionally, through the direction of projects and processes, he has worked in the areas of management and research. His research focuses on the role of speech therapy in Public Health and educational innovation in Health Sciences.

Christian Peñaloza [sociocultural and community-based approaches]
Universidad de Chile, Chile.

Ph.D. in Linguistics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Chile. He has published works that address the linguistic description of children along with the parental and social characteristics that define their developmental environment. Additionally, he has promoted various study groups focused on the epistemological foundations of human communication and certain approaches such as the rights-based approach, the life course approach, among others. He has been a section editor since 2019.

Verónica Vidal [children comunication and language]
Universidad de los Andes, Chile.

Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is a Speech-Language Pathologist and holds a Master's in Neurosciences from the University of Chile. She is a professor at the School of Speech-Language Pathology at the University of the Andes. She teaches postgraduate courses at the School of Public Health at the University of the Andes. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in qualitative research methodologies and in language and communication difficulties in children and adolescents. Her research focuses on the characterization and development of supports for the social inclusion of children within the autism spectrum in a school context from a socio-ecological model, using mixed methodologies. Dr. Vidal has been a section editor for child communication and language at the Revista Chilena de Fonoaudiología since March 2021.

She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology (Neuroscience program) from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and is a professor in the Department of Research Methods and Diagnosis in Education II (OEDIP) at the Faculty of Education of the UNED. She engages in teaching and research activities in the areas of cognitive neuroscience, language development, and literacy learning. Her scientific interests focus on the study of executive functioning, language, and reading, their interrelationships, and the role they play in learning, with the aim of generating evidence-based practices that promote full development opportunities for all individuals. Dr. Martín-Aragoneses actively participates as a reviewer for numerous international journals and is a member of scientific and professional societies related to her profile. She is also responsible for the Research Group in Cognition, Neuroscience, and Education (CogNeuroEdu) at the UNED.

Felipe Torres [children comunication and language]
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Ph.D. in Psychology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Master’s in Cognitive Development from Universidad Diego Portales. Felipe Torres is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Therapy at the University of Chile and a pediatric speech-language pathologist at the Clinical Hospital of the same university. His research focuses on the study of cognitive functions—particularly executive functioning—and their relationship with language performance in children with typical and atypical development.

Nelson Muñoz-Lizana [Public Health and Speech-Language Therapy]
Universidad de Chile

Speech-Language Therapist, professional at the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile. Candidate for Doctor of Public Health, Institute of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses and participates in research teams in areas related to Primary Health Care, Community-Based Rehabilitation, Social Studies of Disability, and Qualitative Health Methodologies. Additionally, he is the coordinator of the Latin American Network of Critical Speech-Language Therapy and Collective Health and a member of the Millennium Nucleus Studies on Disability and Citizenship (DISCA-ANID), Chile.

Editorial Board

Gerardo Aguado
Universidad de Navarra, España

Nina Crespo
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Chile

Marta Infante
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

Hernán León
Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Mariangela Maggiolo
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Rodolfo Miralles
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Andrés Ortega
Clínica Las Condes, Chile

Irene Queiroz Marchesan
Universidad Católica de São Paulo, Brasil

Pía Villanueva
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Franz Zenker
Clínica Barajas, España

María Fernanda Lara
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Stephanie Daniels
University of Huston, USA

Suely Master
São Paulo State University, Brasil

Llorenç Andreu
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, España

Monica Sanz-Torrent
Universitat de Barcelona, España

Claudia Araya Castillo
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Claudia Arancibia
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Editorial Production

Josué Pino Castillo [Editorial Producer]
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Master in Linguistics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Bachelor in Hispanic Letters from the same institution. He has forged his academic and professional path focused on the study of language, from the phonetic aspect centered on innovation and speech technologies. Since 2015, he has served as an academic in the Department of Speech Therapy of the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad de Chile. He has taught courses at various Chilean universities and has been a member of the Board of the Sociedad Chilena de Fonoaudiología. Since 2017, he has been the Editorial Producer of the Revista Chilena de Fonoaudiología.

María Teresa Bertucci Mora [Traductora]

Translator for Revista Chilena de Fonoaudiología, as well as for Gear4music (UK). With a degree in Speech-Language Therapy from Universidad de Chile and experience in the areas of voice and music, as well as in academia. Currently working as a translator specializing in academic articles, as well as in web content in the fields of music and mental health, with special interest in social sciences, social justice, and gender issues.

Mirko Martinic [Diseñador]

Patricio Soto [Evidence Synthesis Advisor]

Speech-language pathologist from the University of Valparaíso, with a Master’s degree in Biological Sciences with a mention in Neurosciences, and specialized training in Evidence-Based Medicine and research methodology. He currently works at the Department of Health Technology Assessment and Evidence-Based Health (ETESA) at the Chilean Ministry of Health, where he leads methodological processes for the development of clinical practice guidelines, health technology assessments, and evidence-informed decision-making processes, systematically applying the GRADE methodology. He has served as a methodological advisor in multiple research projects and systematic reviews. He has over a decade of experience in university teaching, with a focus on training in evidence-based practice, evidence synthesis, and critical appraisal of scientific literature.