Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Expertise on Development and Disabilities

Hearing Disorders

Assessment and treatment of children's hearing impairments
Fred Bess, Ph.D., Profess or Hearing and Speech Sciences, Chair of the Department, and Director of Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center

Pediatric audiology; auditory development in typically developing infants; auditory capabilities of special populations, including children with autism and children with deaf-blindness
Anne Marie Tharpe, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Hearing & Speech Sciences