Dr. Westby is a consultant for Bilingual Multicultural Services in Albuquerque, NM and an affiliated professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. She is a fellow of the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), holds Board Certification in Child Language, and has received the Honors of the Association. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on theory of mind, language-literacy relationships, narrative/expository development and facilitation, assessment and facilitation of written language, metacognition/ executive function, and issues in assessment and intervention with culturally/ linguistically diverse populations. She is the developer of the Westby Symbolic Playscale. She has been principal investigator on a number of clinical service, research, and personnel preparation grants. She has a BA in English from Geneva College and an MA and PhD in Speech Pathology from the University of Iowa.