Amy Johnson

Amy Horton Johnson has been a practicing Speech-Language Pathologist for more than 20 years, focusing on developmental speech, language, feeding disorders, and servicing medically fragile infants with complex medical and neurological conditions. She received a Bachelor of Science in Special Education from Boston College and a Master of Science degree in Speech Pathology from Teachers College at Columbia University. Specialized training includes course work in The Sequential Oral Sensory Approach, a transdisciplinary approach to assessing and treating children with feeding difficulties, and the SOFFI Method (Supporting Oral Feeding in Fragile Infants), an evidence-based method for quality bottle-feedings of preterm, ill, and fragile infants and multiple other programs for treating medically complex pediatric feeding disorders. 

Amy has a particular clinical interest and expertise in behavioral feeding disorders and extended experience in transitioning children from enteral feeding to oral intake. In addition to holding the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association’s (ASHA) Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP), she is an ASHA Fellow and a contributing member of the Special interest Group in Swallowing and Dysphagia. She has held a faculty appointment as Clinical Instructor in Speech-Language Pathology at New York Medical College since the fall of 2015.