Amy Vaughn

Dr. Amy Vaughn, CCC-SLP is an associate professor in communication sciences and disorders at BW. She received a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University, a master’s degree in speech-language pathology from Case Western Reserve University, and a doctorate in higher education administration with an emphasis on college teaching from Kent State University.

Vaughn teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels including Voice Disorders, Dysphagia, Motor Speech Disorders, SLP 2 B in Zambia, Articulation and Phonology Disorders, and a variety of Integrations courses as well as clinic. She established the Professional Voice Assessment Clinic that serves the needs of BW Conservatory students by providing comprehensive voice evaluations to aspiring vocal performers. Her research interests include clinical education, interprofessional education and voice. Additionally, she collaborates with the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia to develop protocols for dysphagia management for their stroke center.

She has been an invited speaker at the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention on the topics of dysphagia, clinical education, and ethics in communication sciences and disorders professions. In addition, she has spoken nationally and internationally on topics related to dysphagia, childhood apraxia of speech, fluency, clinical education, voice and gender-affirming services, and adult learning theory.

Her research on voice and well-being in transgender individuals, development of the gender-affirming voice and communication group at the Baldwin Wallace University Speech Clinic, and service on the LGBTQ+ Taskforce earned her the 2023 Professor David Prok Humanitarian Award for Social Justice in Sex and Gender Diversity. Vaughn is an active member of the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association, having served as the Director of Business Development from 2020-2023 and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association where she serves as a mentor to aspiring students through the Students to Empowered Professionals (S.T.E.P.) mentoring program.

Dissertation

“Time Well Spent: The National Survey on Time Usage in Clinical Education”