Author
Dr. Anne Marie Tharpe is Professor and Chair of the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and Associate Director of the Bill Wilkerson Center in Nashville, Tennessee. After receiving her undergraduate degree at the University of Arizona and her Master’s degree at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Tharpe practiced as a clinical audiologist from 1980 until 1994 when she received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. Since that time, she has served as a teacher/scholar while maintaining a small clinical practice.
Early in her career, Dr. Tharpe lived and worked in Saudi Arabia where she established an audiology clinic. Although she moved back to the United States, she has continued to work with universities and clinics around the world to establish evidence-based services for infants and children with hearing loss.
Dr. Tharpe’s research emphasizes the impact of hearing loss on the overall development of infants and children, including those with multiple disabilities. More specifically, her work has focused on visual attention and environmental exploration of those with severe-to-profound degrees of hearing loss, and orientation and mobility of those with hearing loss and vision deficits. Additionally, much of her work has focused on the impact of minimal degrees of hearing loss on psycho-educational development of school-age children.
