Amy Wetherby

Amy Miller Wetherby, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist and autism researcher. Her work focuses on early detection and intervention for autism.

Education Wetherby graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1977 with a B.A. in Communication Disorders and Sciences, and received a Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Sciences jointly from University of California, Santa Barbara and University of California, San Francisco in 1982.

Notable projects One of Wetherby's first projects after starting at Florida State University in 1983 was the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales (CSBS), used to study early skills underlying communication development. She has also worked extensively on the Early Social Intervention model, which uses parent coaching to improve children's language and communication.

In 2007, Wetherby helped create a video glossary of common autistic behaviors, such as stimming and echolalia. This project was sponsored by Autism Speaks and First Signs, two nonprofit advocacy groups. She currently serves as a distinguished research professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences, She has two children.