Dr Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL
Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP , BCS-CL
Consultant
Bilingual Multicultural Services
Albuquerque, New Mexico USA
Carol has written and presented workshops nationally and internationally on language-literacy disabilities; theory of mind, play, and narrative development; multicultural issues; and the use of the ICF with communication disorders. She is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and has received the Honors of the Association.
Areas of specialty
- language and literacy development and disorders
- theory of mind, play, and narrative development and assessment
- effects of hearing loss on social and academic development
- influence of culture on communication
- assessment of culturally/linguistically diverse infants/toddlers, children, and adolescents
Populations of interest
- Children and adolescents with language/literacy impairments
- Culturally/linguistically diverse populations
- Children and adolescents with developmental language disorders, autism, hearing loss