Amy Peterson
University of Wyoming
Assistant Professor
Laramie, WY
Amy K. Peterson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is an assistant professor at the University of Wyoming in the Division of Communication Disorders. She is the director of the Adolescent Language Intervention, Applications, and Strategies (ALIAS) Lab. Her research primarily focuses on interventions for students with language disorders, which includes those who have difficulty with literacy skills in reading and writing across curricular areas. She is also interested in supporting special educators, speech-language pathologists in particular, in providing adolescent services and alignment to the curriculum through implementation science. Amy is a certified speech-language pathologist with 8 years of clinical practice as a school-based SLP prior to earning her Ph.D. from Utah State University in 2022. She earned her master's degree in speech-language pathology in 2010 from the University of Wyoming. Amy is also the current president of the Wyoming Speech-Language-Hearing Association and is proud to be serving the community in the Cowboy state.