Amy M. Wetherby, Ph.D., is Professor and former Chair of the
Department of Communication Disorders at Florida State University.
She received her doctorate from the University of California-San
Francisco/Santa Barbara in 1982. She has had more than 20 years of
clinical experience in the design and implementation of
communication programs for children with autism and severe
communication impairments and is an American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association fellow. Dr. Wetherby's research
has focused on communicative and social-cognitive aspects of
language difficulties in children with autism and, more recently,
on the early identification of children with communicative
impairments. She has published extensively on these topics and
presents regularly at national conventions. She is a co-author of
the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales (with Barry M.
Prizant [Applied Symbolix, 1993]). She is the Executive Director of
the Florida State University Center for Autism and Related
Disabilities and is Project Director of U.S. Department of
Education Model Demonstration Grant No. H324M980173 on early
identification of communication disorders in infants and toddlers
and Personnel Preparation Training Grant No. H029A10066
specializing in autism.
Barry M. Prizant, Ph.D., has more than 25 years experience as a
clinical scholar, researcher, and consultant to young children with
autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and related communication
disabilities and their families. He is an American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association fellow and is a member of the
Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning
Disabilities. Formerly, he was Associate Professor of Psychiatry in
the Brown University Program in Medicine, Professor in the School
of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Emerson College, and
Advanced Post-Doctoral Fellow in Early Intervention at University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has developed family-centered
programs for newly diagnosed toddlers with ASD and their families
in hospital and university clinic environments. He has been an
invited presenter at two State of the Science Conferences on ASD at
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and has contributed to the
NIH Clinical Practice Guidelines for early identification and
diagnosis of ASD. Dr. Prizant's current research and clinical
interests include identification and family-centered treatment of
infants, toddlers, and young children who have or are at risk for
sociocommunicative difficulties, including ASD.
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