Dr. Amanda Blackwell - Bilingual SLP and Working in Central America

In this episode, Dr. Amanda Blackwell SLPD, CCC-SLP shares how a series of missionary trips and work during her PhD, led to becoming a Bilingual Speech Language Pathologist based in Antigua, Guatemala since 2013. Since then, her call to Central America has led her to work with a wide variety of organizations, universities and research products:

-Supervisor at FUNDAL Guatemala https://fundal.org.gt/ and Down Guatemala https://www.downguatemala.org/

-Co-Founder of LUNA Autismo on Instagram @LunaAutismo and FB LUNA Legado Universal del Autismo

-Co-founder an VP of the Guatemalan Association of Speech Therapists (@SomosTLgt)

Adjunct Faculty Member at: 

-Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, IN (Autism)

-Minot State University in Minot, ND (AAC)

-University of Redlands in Redlands, CA (Language development) 

-Amanda is currently in her last semester of EdD program at Murray State University with a goal to open a University of Allied Health Professions in Guatemala

-Spanish content creator at SLP Toolkit

-Currently participating in research study about international AAC with ISAAC president Juan Bornman and researchers in South Africa, Penn State, and Sri Lanka

-Participated in research with Penn State about AAC education for professionals in Guatemala 

-Doctoral research using static VSD with adults with complex communication needs in Guatemala

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