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Ann Marie Tharpe, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Pediatrics Nashville, TN Professional Bio Anne Marie Tharpe is a Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center and is the Associate Director of Education for the National Center for Childhood Deafness and Family Communication at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Tharpe’s clinical and research interests are in the area of pediatric audiology. Primary research goals include identifying the special auditory needs of children with multiple disabilities, and examining the developmental implications of hearing loss in infants and children, including minimal degrees of loss. Recent studies have focused on the development of visual attention, emotion recognition, and environmental exploration in children with hearing loss. | 