Carol Westby, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a consultant for Bilingual Multicultural Services, Inc. (BMSI) in Albuquerque, NM and holds an affiliate position in Communication Disorders at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. She has developed a clinical decision tree for assessing fictional narrative development. At BMSI, Dr. Westby is working with staff to document the developmental stages of autobiographical narratives in preschool and elementary school children and promote the emergence and development of life stories in adolescents as a way to promote self-regulation and self-determination. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on narrative and expository development and facilitation, theory of mind, metacognition/executive function, language-literacy relationships, and issues in assessment and intervention with culturally/linguistically diverse populations.

Dr. Westby is a fellow of the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and holds Specialty Recognition in Child Language. She received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Iowa’s Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, the ASHA Award for Contributions to Multicultural Affairs and the honors of ASHA (2007).