Neuropsychologist · Psicóloga General Sanitaria
Registration no.: 6278 (COPC)
Languages: Catalan, Spanish, English
Roser Fernández Olaria
Roser Fernández Olaria works in child and adult neuropsychology. Her experience includes assessing cognitive functions, learning difficulties and intervention needs. She integrates assessment findings with the person's history and everyday functioning to guide recommendations and, when appropriate, coordination with their environment and other professionals.
Selected training
- PhD in Psychology (Universitat de Barcelona).
- Master’s in Neuropsychology (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
- Specialist Master’s in Language and Hearing Disorders (Universitat de Barcelona).
- Specialist qualification in Dementia and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
(Background)
Full CV
Training, experience, teaching and publications, as listed in each professional’s CV. Spanish degree titles are kept in brackets where a translation could suggest a different professional qualification.
Professional experience
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Neuropsychologist and general health psychologist (psicóloga general sanitaria) at PAIDO-DEX, Hospital Universitario Dexeus. Neuropsychology Unit of the Paediatrics Department.
2024 -
Neuropsychologist specialising in diagnosis and intervention at Fundación Entia.
2024 -
Neuropsychologist at the Instituto de Neurociencias y Salud Mental.
2024 -
Associate lecturer on the Master’s in Learning Difficulties and Language Disorders at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
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Coordinator, researcher and psychologist at Aura Fundación.
2004 – 2024 -
Neuropsychologist and health psychologist at the Dr. Estivill Sleep Clinic.
2010 – 2016 -
Neuropsychologist at Punt Psicología and in private practice.
2008 – 2024
Teaching
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Coordinator and/or supervisor of research projects for trainee students and doctoral candidates from several universities (URL, UOC, UAB, UB, UNIR).
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Co-supervisor of two doctoral theses and coordinator of a third, with Dr Olga Bruna Rabassa of the Universitat Ramon Llull.
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Associate lecturer in the Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
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Lecturer on the Master’s in Learning Difficulties and Language Disorders, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
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Professional Master’s in Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UAB. Seminar: Perception, Gnosias and Agnosias: Optic Aphasia.
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Participation in conferences and talks from 1996 to the present.
Academic training
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General health psychologist (Psicòloga General Sanitària) accredited and authorised by the Catalan Government’s Department of Health.
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PhD in Psychology (Universitat de Barcelona).
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Master’s in Neuropsychology (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
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Expert in Neuropsychology, Catalan and Spanish Societies of Neuropsychology.
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Specialist Master’s in Language and Hearing Disorders (Universitat de Barcelona).
Publications
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Amadó, A. i Fernández-Olaria, R. (2019). Comunicació, llenguatge i parla en la síndrome de Down, a Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla i Alfonso Igualada (Eds.), Dificultats del llenguatge en els trastorns del desenvolupament. Vol II: Síndromes genètics i trastorn de l'espectre autista. Barcelona: UOC.
2019 -
Fernández, R. y Canals, G. (2018). Estimulación cognitiva en personas con síndrome de Down. Revista Síndrome de Down, nº 29.
2018 -
Flórez, J., Garvía, B. y Fernández-Olaria, R. (2015). Síndrome de Down: Neurobiología, Neuropsicología, Salud mental. Madrid: CEPE y Fundación Iberoamericana Down21.
2015 -
Signo, S., Bruna, O., Guerra, M., Fernández-Olaria, R. y Canals, G. (2016). El proceso de envejecimiento de las personas con síndrome de Down: estudio multicéntrico para la detección de los cambios neuropsicológicos. Rev Síndrome de Down de Cantabria, vol 33.
2016 -
Canals, G. y Fernández, R. (2016). Preparando la jubilación: el Programa Aura Vital. Revista Síndrome de Down: Vida Adulta, 23.
2016 -
Fernández-Olaria, R. y Gràcia-García, M. (2014). Lenguaje expresivo y memoria verbal a corto plazo u operativa (de ítem y de orden) en el síndrome de Down. Revista Síndrome de Down de Cantabria, 31: 118-130.
2014 -
Fernández-Olaria, R. y Gràcia-García, M. (2013). Lenguaje expresivo y memoria verbal a corto plazo u operativa (working memory) en las personas con síndrome de Down. Revista Síndrome de Down de Cantabria, 30: 122-132.
2013 -
Signo, S., Bruna, O., Fernández, R., Canals, G., Mangado, L. y Manzano, T. (2012). Canvis neuropsicològics en el procés d'envelliment en les persones amb síndrome de Down. Revista de Psicologia, Ciències de l'Educació i de l'Esport, Aloma, 30(1).
2012 -
Fernández-Olaria, R., Signo, S., Bruna, O. y Canals, G. (2011). Envejecimiento activo y saludable en personas con síndrome de Down. Estudio multicéntrico para la prevención e intervención del deterioro cognitivo. Nº 9, Revista Síndrome de Down: Vida Adulta.
2011 -
Calsina, C. y Fernández, R. (1996). Logodrac: ejercicios de discriminación logopédica. Editorial Escuela Española S.A., Madrid.
1996
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