Daniela Iturra-Osorio

 Daniela Iturra-Osorio is a Ph.D. student in Education Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on inclusive education and examines how neurodivergent children and their families navigate educational and health systems across different stages of development. Building on prior work on classroom-based practices and collaborative interventions, her current interests include autism and developmental language disorder (DLD), situated within broader forms of neurodivergence. She is particularly interested in how institutional arrangements, professional practices, and cross-sector coordination across systems shape support trajectories over the life course, including in international and comparative contexts.

Prior to her doctoral training, Daniela held academic appointments in Speech-Language Pathology and Special Education in Chile and completed graduate training in Spain. Her experience working across educational and health systems in different national contexts informs a mixed-methods, systems-oriented research approach aimed at generating evidence relevant to educational practice and policy.

Curriculum Vita

Ph.D. in Education Studies, University of California, San Diego, United States
(2025–present)

M.Sc. in Speech-Language Pathology Intervention, Universitat de València, Spain
(2016–2017)

B.A. in Speech-Language Pathology, Universidad de Talca, Chile (2009–2013)

● Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
Iturra-Osorio, D., Camus Torres, A., Allende-Valenzuela, T., & Aparici Aznar, M. (2025).
Adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) to Chilean Spanish.
Revista de Investigación en Logopedia, 15(1), e95051.

Amaya-Medina, D.-R., González-Fernández, D., Flores-González, J.-F., & Iturra-Osorio, D.
(2025). Teaching phonological awareness in the classroom to support reading acquisition: A
systematic review. Ocnos. Journal of Reading Research, 24(2).

González-Fernández, D., Flores-González, F., Amaya-Medina, D.-R., & Iturra-Osorio, D.
(2024). Teaching phonological awareness: A comparative analysis according to the
development of collaboration between teachers and speech-language pathologists. Revista
de Investigación en Logopedia, 14(2).

Iturra-Osorio, D., Allende-Valenzuela, T., & Vargas Ríos, F. A. (2024). Assessment of
socioemotional, cognitive, and motor development in Chilean children with Developmental
Language Disorder and typical development. The Argentine Journal of Behavioral Sciences,
16(3).

Iturra-Osorio, D. (2024). Mathematical skills in preschool children with Developmental
Language Disorder: A review aimed at raising awareness among educators and educational
support professionals. Revista Latinoamericana de Educación Inclusiva, 18(1), 161–174.

Iturra-Osorio, D., Camus, A., Allende, T., & Aparici, M. (2023). Narrative macrostructure in
Spanish monolingual and Catalan–Spanish bilingual preschoolers: A comparative study.
Revista de Logopedia, Foniatría y Audiología, 43, 100450.

Iturra-Osorio, D., Espinoza Pastén, L., Vásquez, F., & Ygual Fernández, A. (2021). Early
mathematical skills in Chilean children with Developmental Language Disorder: A
comparative study. Revista de Investigación en Logopedia, 11(Special Issue), 89–99.

● Manuscripts Under Review
Muñoz-Lizana, N., Iturra-Osorio, D., Helo, A., Valdés Ortiz-Arrieta, C., & Coloma, C.
Navigating support pathways for children with Developmental Language Disorder in Chile:
Caregivers’ perspectives across health and education services.

Vidal, V., Wachholtz, D., Iturra-Osorio, D., Farfán, M., & Cuevas, C. “One always tries to do
the best one can, but sometimes your knowledge is not enough”: Chilean speech-language
pathologists’ professional development perceptions for delivering AAC support to non-
speaking autistic students.

● Funded Research Projects
Diagnostic processes and provision of educational and health support services for
children with autism in Chile: Perspectives of primary caregivers and involved
professionals
Principal Investigator. Interinstitutional Research Competition, Universidad Católica Silva
Henríquez (2024–2025).
Educational and care trajectories of families of children with Developmental Language
Disorder in Santiago of Chile
Co-Investigator. Advanced Research Competition, Department of Speech and Language
Therapy (FONDEPFO), Universidad de Chile (2023–2024).
Does narrative discourse contribute to early mathematical learning of preschool
children with Developmental Language Disorder?
Principal Investigator. Interinstitutional Research Competition, Universidad Católica Silva
Henríquez (2022–2023).
Assessment of socioemotional, cognitive, and motor development in Chilean children
with Developmental Language Disorder and typical development
Principal Investigator. Interinstitutional Research Competition, Universidad Católica Silva
Henríquez (2020–2021).
Evaluation of early mathematical skills in children with Developmental Language
Disorder attending regular schools with school integration programs
Principal Investigator. Interinstitutional Research Competition, Universidad Católica Silva
Henríquez (2018–2019).

● Community-Engaged and Applied Research Projects
Let’s Take Care of Our Mental Health: Workshop for Caregivers. Community Engagement
Project, Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez (2022).
Inclusive Speech-Language Pathology: A Step Towards Interculturality in Schools.
Community Engagement Project, Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez (2020).

● Selected Oral Presentations at Peer-Reviewed Conferences (2023–2025)
Muñoz, N., Iturra-Osorio, D., Valdés, C., Helo, A., & Coloma, C. (2025).
Care and educational trajectories to support the development of children with Developmental
Language Disorder (DLD) in Santiago, Chile: An exploration of caregivers’ experiences.
Oral presentation. XI International Congress on Language Acquisition and III Congress of
the Spanish-Speaking Association for the Study of Language Disorder, Universidad de
Sevilla, Spain.
Iturra-Osorio, D., Muñoz-Lizana, N., Helo, A., Valdés Ortiz-Arrieta, C., & Coloma, C. (2024).
“It’s sad to see your child get frustrated due to a language problem”: Exploring the
experiences of caregivers of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).
Oral presentation. Second Congress of the Chilean Society of Speech-Language Pathology
(SOCHIFO), University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
Muñoz-Lizana, N., Iturra-Osorio, D., Helo, A., Valdés Ortiz-Arrieta, C., & Coloma, C. (2024).
Characterization of educational and care trajectories of children aged 6 to 9 with
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in Santiago, Chile.
Oral presentation. Second Congress of the Chilean Society of Speech-Language Pathology
(SOCHIFO), University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
Iturra-Osorio, D., Camus, A., Allende-Valenzuela, T., & Aparici, M. (2024).
Cross-cultural adaptation of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) to
Chilean Spanish: A new alternative for the narrative assessment of bilingual children.
Oral presentation. Second Congress of the Chilean Society of Speech-Language Pathology
(SOCHIFO), University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
Farfán, M., Iturra-Osorio, D., Cuevas, C., & Vidal, V. (2023).
Clinical practices and needs of school speech-language pathologists implementing AAC for
autistic children and adolescents with occasional oral language use: Preliminary findings.
Oral presentation. V Congress of Research Speech Therapists: Scientific and Technological
Advances in the Service of Speech Therapy, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile.
Amaya-Medina, D., González-Fernández, D., Flores-González, F., & Iturra-Osorio, D.
(2023).
Phonological awareness intervention in the classroom: A systematic review of the literature.
Oral presentation. XXIII International Congress of the Chilean Society of Linguistics,
Santiago, Chile.
Iturra-Osorio, D. (2023).
To what extent are early linguistic and numerical skills of preschoolers with Developmental
Language Disorder (DLD) related?
Oral presentation. V Congress of Research Speech Therapists: Scientific and Technological
Advances in the Service of Speech Therapy, Universidad de los Andes,

Kroner Family Endowed Fellowship, University of California, San Diego (2025).

Delta Kappa Gamma (DKG) World Fellowship, International Society (2025).

Selected recipient for the 2025–2026 academic year.

Fulbright–ANID Equal Opportunity Doctoral Fellowship, Chile–United States Binational
Program (2022). Awarded.

Outstanding Alumni Award, Speech-Language Pathology, Universidad de Talca (2024).

Professor of the Year, Speech-Language Pathology Program, Universidad Católica Silva
Henríquez (2021, 2022).

Damià Bonet International Scholarship, Universitat de València (2016).

Bicentennial Scholarship, Ministry of Education of Chile (2012–2013).

Academic Excellence Scholarship, Ministry of Education of Chile (2009–2011).