Lisa Hammett Price

Lisa Hammett Price, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a professor in the speech-language pathology program in the Department of Communication Disorders, Special Education, and Disability Services at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). In 2011, she and her colleagues Anne van Kleeck and Carl J. Huberty received the Dina Feitelson Research Award from the International Reading Association for their 2009 journal article published in Reading Research Quarterly. Price specializes in pediatric speech-language disorders, with an emphasis on language and literacy assessment and intervention for children with language disorders. She has 15 years of experience working as a clinical speech-language pathologist with families and their children 2 to 12 years old. She uses book reading and thematic units as methods for targeting language weaknesses while increasing students’ access to the curriculum. Her research has focused on parent-child and teacher-child interactions during book reading, looking for how adult scaffolding can better support child language growth. She also uses different genres of books to achieve different learning objectives. Price received her PhD in communication sciences and disorders with a specialization in child language and literacy from the University of Georgia and her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the same field from James Madison University in Virginia.