Amy Tepper

Dr. Amy Tepper, CCC-SLP, is an associate professor of the department of communication sciences and disorders. She joined the faculty of BW with 20 years of professional experience providing rehabilitation opportunities to individuals presenting with various disabling communication and swallowing impairments across the lifespan (clinical, medical, and school-based settings). She currently serves as the director of advocacy for the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association and is a member in good-standing of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Her primary interest areas include developing and enacting innovative instructional supports/methods toward mitigating potentially disabling barriers in education, creating maximally supportive clinical learning experiences, facilitating equitable student access to educational resources and supports, and meeting the educational needs of underserved/vulnerable populations effectively.

Tepper teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate coursework on topics such as:

• Integrating solutions-focused problem solving in clinical care, ethics, evidence-based practice and collaborative consultation into clinical practice;
• Developing practitioner awareness and consideration of the social model of disability;
• Diagnosing and providing therapeutic intervention to individuals presenting with disabling communication impairment across the lifespan;
• Differentiation of intervention approaches consistent with the principle tenets associated with universal design for learning;
• Innovative preventive-intervention programming development;
• Consideration of the integral role of speech and hearing science in clinicians’ practice;
• Policy analysis and advocacy;
• Traditional research methods in communication sciences and disorders; and the
• Neuroanatomy and physiology of the speech and hearing mechanism.

Additionally, she consults with school-based professionals, collaborates with colleagues, supports undergraduate student research, and supervises undergraduate and graduate clinicians.

Tepper has presented at the state, national, and international levels on a variety of communication-related topics.