Associate Professor
College of Health and Human Sciences
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Contact Information
Email: jprice@wcu.edu
Phone: 828.227.3795
Office: 188 Health and Human Sciences Building
Education
PhD, University of Memphis
Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology
MS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Speech-Language Pathology
BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Communication Studies and American Studies
Biography
I'm a North Carolina native and am delighted to have been a faculty member here at
Western since 2013. My teaching, clinical, and research interests relate to language
and literacy in a wide variety of children, especially those with neurodevelopmental
disorders including autism. My interests also include interprofessional education
and practice. Through partnerships with a local elementary school and the NC Scottish
Rite Foundation, I supervise graduate clinicians in Literacy Camp (an afterschool
program for children at risk for low reading achievement) and Summer Language and
Literacy Camp (a program for children with language and/or literacy disorders). Along
with WCU colleagues in Communication Sciences and Disorders, Special Education, and
Psychology, I am co-Principal Investigator of INTERprofessional Autism Collaborative
Training (Project INTERACT), a US Department of Special Education interprofessional personnel preparation grant
designed to train graduate students to support children with autism. Additionally,
I serve on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. I also enjoy involving undergraduate and graduate students in research efforts.
list of recent publications
Teaching Interests
Child Language Development, Preschool Language Disorders, The Clinical Process, Intervention
for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Clinical Supervision
Research Interests
Child language and literacy development and disorders; neurodevelopmental disabilities,
especially autism spectrum disorder; interprofessional education and practice