Program Details

Presented by:

CAROL WESTBY, PhD, CCC-SLP

CAROL WESTBY, PhD, CCC-SLP,   is a fellow of the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and holds Specialty Recognition in Child Language. She has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the ’s Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, the ASHA Award for Contributions to Multicultural Affairs, and the honors of ASHA.  Dr. Westby began her professional career in where she initiated the development of the Play Scale. In , she has written and implemented grant projects to support personnel preparation, clinical service, and research; and most recently was consulting with the New Mexico Preschool for the Deaf which employs a play-based curriculum.

Dr. Westby has been principal investigator on a number of clinical service, research, and personnel preparation grants, including Project TALES (Talking about Life Experiences and Stories) which promoted reading and writing development in Native American students; Project LIFE (Learning in Family Environments) which prepared graduate students from multiple fields to work with diverse families and children; and Project BRIDGE (Building Reading in Diverse Groups in Education), that prepared graduate students in speech-language pathology to work within classrooms to facilitate language-literacy development of children from Hispanic and Native American backgrounds.

She has published and presented nationally and internationally on play assessment and development, language-literacy relationships, narrative development and facilitation, assessment and facilitation of written language, and issues in assessment and intervention with culturally/linguistically diverse populations. She has several book chapters that present frameworks for literate language assessment and intervention. Dr. Westby has a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin.

• Classroom Teachers

• Learning Disabilities Teachers

• Reading Specialist

• Special Education Teachers

• Speech-Language Pathologist