Stephanie Rivera Cepeda is a bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist based out of Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Portland State University in 2015 and worked for the North Clackamas School District for 3 years. During those three years Stephanie worked at both of the district's elementary Spanish immersion programs, as well as their adult transition program. Through the duration of that time, she simultaneously worked at a skilled nursing facility, as well as a hospital in McMinnville as a per diem SLP. There, she worked with many Spanish speaking outpatients and inpatients to address a variety of communication disorders, cognitive deficits, dysphasia at bedside, as well as modified barium swallow studies. Stephanie returned to California in 2018, and has worked in the public schools ever since. During the summer of 2022 Stephanie began to co-lead the Ecuador study abroad program for the SPHR graduate students, and now also supervises the virtual Ecuador clinical practicum.
Areas of Expertise:
Bilingual Language
Bilingual Speech Sound Disorders
Pediatric Assessment and Early Intervention
Multicultural Issues in Communication Disorders
Courses:
SPHR 540 Multicultural Topics in Communication Sciences & Disorders
SPHR 541 Bilingual Topics in Communication Sciences and Disorders
SPHR 509 Clinical Practicum
SPHR 463 Language Disorders in Children