Laura M. Justice, Ph.D., is a clinical speech-language pathologist and applied researcher in early childhood language and literacy development, language disabilities, and educational interventions. Dr. Justice directs the Preschool Language and Literacy Lab in the University of Virginia’s Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning; she also is a faculty member in the McGuffey Reading Center in the University’s Curry School of Education, in which she teaches courses in reading disability and early literacy development. Dr. Justice’s research activities have been supported by grants from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the International Reading Association, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of Education. Her research on early language and literacy has been recognized by the International Reading Association (Distinguished Finalist, Dissertation of the Year), the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (Editor’s Award, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology), the Council for Exceptional Children (Division for Research Early Career Publication Award), and in by the U.S. Department of Education’s nomination in 2005 to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), conferred by the President of the United States to recognize the nation’s finest scientists early in their research careers.