Welcome to Janey Macey and Associates! While my dream has always been to spend my life helping children, being able to share my experiences with all of you really completes that vision. My goal for this blog is to give my readers an inside-out look of what we do here at JM&A and to really share in the experiences of the kids, their challenges, and their amazing progress.

For myself, looking at where we are now, I am amazed at the journey that brought us here. After I finished my under graduate degree at LA Tech in Pre-Professional Speech and Hearing Pathology in 1996, I moved directly into my Master of Communication Disorders at Louisiana State University’s Med Center. I began my career in the East Texas public school system in 1999 and immediately fell in love with working in the pediatric field. After the birth of my first child in 2001, I worked part time in Karnack, Texas until 2003 when I began working for a private clinic in Shreveport, LA. It was here that I truly found my niche and my calling.

Being able to work with children on a one-on-one basis was a refreshing revelation; I was able to accomplish so much with the children and their families. The desire to do more and to go futher led me to open my own speech therapy clinic in 2004. My employees and I worked in a collaborative way with children with disabilities like developmental delay, Autism, cerebral palsy, articulation/phonological disorders, and hearing impairment. In the fall of 2007, I had the opportunity to move my speech therapy practice to Bossier City, and the next two years we had expanded the services at Janey Macey and Associates to occupational and physical therapy. Recently, in March of 2011, we began offering Applied Behavior Analysis therapy which has gotten amazing results with the children.

It’s amazing to watch my dreams come true and expand. Our clinic has grown from its original 1000 square feet to 3500, with all of our services offered a single, convenient location in the Shreveport/Bossier area. We also serve families in Midnen, Haughton, Benton, and East Texas. I’m so proud of my staff and how hard we’ve all worked to build this company, to be able to help children from all kinds of backgrounds. I hope you’ll stay tuned for all that is to come, including inside looks at our therapies, tracking the progress of some of our kids, and learning about ways to make our community, city, and state more educated and tolerant regarding special needs children.