Her primary areas of teaching and research focus on the language development, assessment and delivery of services to young children from diverse cultural and language backgrounds with a primary focus on African American and bilingual children. She is the author of several publications focusing on multicultural child language development and assessment concerns and has given numerous presentations on these topics to professionals, researchers and parents locally (in California) and nationally. Dr. Wyatt also has served as the member of several boards and committees of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association and California Speech-Language-Hearing Association. In addition, she has served as an associate editor for LSHSS and editorial reviewer/consultant for several other professional journals.