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About Laura Justice
- Laura M.
- Justice (born October 9, 1968) is a language scientist and expert on interventions to promote children's literacy.
- She is the EHE Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology at Ohio State University, where she also serves as the Executive Director of the A.
- Sophie Rogers School for Early Learning. Justice received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President George W.
- Bush in 2005.
- Justice received this award for her scientific research identifying techniques to raise the reading levels of pre-school children from low socioeconomic households and those identified as having language impairments.
- This award was the first Presidential Early Career Award to be given in the field of education research.
- Justice's other awards include the Annie Glenn Leadership Award in Speech-Language Pathology and the Early Career Publication Award from the Division of Research, Council for Exceptional Children. Justice has authored several books including Scaffolding with Storybooks: A Guide for Enhancing Young Children's Language and Literacy Achievement,Communication Science and Disorders, Clinical Approaches to Emergent Literacy Intervention, The Syntax Handbook: Everything You Learned About Syntax ...(but Forgot) (with Helen K.
- Ezell), and Engaging Children with Print: Building Early Literacy Skills through Quality Read-Alouds (with Amy Sofka).Justice has held the position of Editor in Chief of Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Editor of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, and Editor of the Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools.
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