Dr. Roser Fernández

Doctor of Psychology, specialist in Language and Hearing Disorders and expert in Neuropsychology. She works in Aura Fundación as the responsible for the Neuropsychology Program and the Effective Communication Program. She has worked for ten years as an associate professor in initial training at the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) with degrees in teaching and psychopedagogy. She is currently a collaborating professor of the Master’s Degree in Learning Difficulties and Language Disorders at the Universitat Oberta of Catalunya.

Her main lines of research are focused on monitoring the aging process of people with Down Syndrome and other intellectual disabilities for the prevention and detection of cognitive impairment and appropriate intervention through cognitive stimulation. Another line of research in which Dr. Roser works is the study of the relationship between working memory and expressive language in people with Down syndrome.  Dr. Roser participates in research projects and has co-directed doctoral theses and has published several articles, books and book chapters in the field of neuropsychology, among which are:

Amadó, A. and Fernández-Olaria, R. (2019). Comunicació, llenguatge i parla en la síndrome de Down a Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla i Alfonso Igualada (Communication, language and speech in Down síndrome) by Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla and Alfonso Igualada (Eds.) Dificultats del llenguatge en els trastorns del desenvolupament. Vol II: Síndromes genètics i trastorn de l’espectre autista (Language difficulties in developmental disorders. Vol II: Genetic syndromes and disorders of the autistic spectrum). Barcelona: UOC.

Fernández, R. and Canals, G. (2018). Estimulación cognitiva en personas con síndrome de Down (Cognitive stimulation in people with Down syndrome). Down’s Syndrome Journal, nº 29. 

Flórez, J., Garvía, B. and Fernández-Olaria R. (2015). Down syndrome: Neurobiology, Neuropsychology, Mental Health. (Síndrome de Down: Neurobiología, Neuropsicología, Salud mental) Madrid: CEPE and Fundación Iberoamericana Down21.

Signo, S., Bruna, O., Guerra, M, Fernández-Olaria, R. and Canals, G., (2016) El proceso de envejecimiento de las personas con síndrome de Down: estudio multicéntrico para la detección de los cambios neuropsicológicos (The aging process of people with Down syndrome: multicenter study for the detection of neuropsychological changes). Rev Síndrome de Down de Cantabria, vol 33