Amy T. Parker, Ed.D.

Amy T. Parker, Ed.D.

Amy T. Parker, Ed.D., Assistant Fellow, Teaching Research Institute, Western Oregon University, 345 Monmouth Avenue North, Monmouth, Oregon 97361

Dr. Amy Parker has 20 years of experience working with people who are deaf-blind as an employment specialist, independent living teacher, in-home parent trainer and advocate. She received her doctorate in special education with an emphasis in deaf-blindness and a certification in orientation and mobility in 2009 through a U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education-funded leadership and enrichment fellowship. She's interested in single-subject research as a means of validating intervention practices and has collaborated in participatory action research with colleagues to empower consumers and families in systems.