Raul Prezas, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Âé¶¹Ó³»Ó°Òô in Texas. He has over 20 years of clinical experience in university, public school, and home health settings, specializing in work with children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. His professional interests include speech sound disorders, phonological development, bilingual/multilingual assessment and intervention, intervention models for highly unintelligible speech, school-based service delivery, and supporting underrepresented populations.
Dr. Prezas has published in leading journals, including the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, and has authored multiple book chapters and articles in his areas of expertise, including a co-authored chapter in an Oxford University Press volume on speech development across the world’s languages. He previously served on the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech, contributing to the development of international screening tools, treatment guidelines, and a Spanish translation of the Intelligibility in Context Scale. Dr. Prezas is a former member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA) Continuing Education Board and will serve as its Chair for the 2026–2028 term. He has also served on ASHA’s Committee on Leadership Cultivation, as a mentor for the S.T.E.P. Program, and as a past member and topic chair for the ASHA Speech Sound Disorders Program Committee.
Dr. Prezas is currently engaged in research on phonological intervention models for speakers of multiple languages and is working on a second edition of his co-authored book designed to help first-generation college students succeed in higher education. His interdisciplinary collaborations extend to sociology, where he has introduced the concepts of ritual desecration and reverse ritual purification in a co-authored publication in Schutzian Research. Dr. Prezas has been invited to present his work at numerous workshops, webinars, and conferences across the United States (including Hawaii and Puerto Rico), Canada, South America, and Europe.