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Our Team
Laine McCurry,
M.A., M.S., CCC-SLP
Laine is the Owner and Co-Founder of Carefree Speech, LLC. As a licensed and certified speech-language pathologist with over a decade of clinical, coaching, and leadership experience, she established Carefree Speech to support clients with improving communication, social, and executive function skills with a neurodiversity-affirming, strengths-based approach to care. As an adult with ADHD herself (who also overcame debilitating public speaking anxiety), Laine is a strong neurodiversity advocate and believes that clinical and coaching services should empower clients to embrace their authentic selves.
Laine provides clinical speech therapy services in the areas of articulation, pragmatic language, stuttering, and selective mutism. She also provides coaching for executive function and professional communication skills, as well as tutoring in English Language Arts.
She loves spending time with her husband and four rescue dogs, reading thrillers, learning to play the drums, and drinking iced coffee.
Education
Laine holds an M.A. in Educational Policy and Leadership from the University of Iowa and an M.S. in Communication Sciences from East Tennessee State University. She graduated summa cum laude from Middle Tennessee State University with a B.S. in Anthropology and Spanish.
Laine is a recipient of the Obermann Graduate Fellowship from the University of Iowa and the FIPSE Graduate Fellowship from East Tennessee State University. In 2014, her graduate research was formally recognized as meritorious by the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA). During her graduate studies, she completed an exchange program in Brazil, during which she examined cross-cultural clinical practices in the field of speech-language pathology under the guidance of Dr. A. Lynn Williams, former president of ASHA.
Experience
With over ten years of clinical and leadership experience, Laine has practiced in a variety of settings including teletherapy, outpatient, skilled nursing, and home health settings. She is qualified to assess and treat clinical concerns including articulation, expressive/receptive language, executive function, social language, and fluency disorders. She also specializes in public speaking, alleviating speaking anxiety, and interview preparation.
Laine has also served as a formal educator, both in traditional and online settings, with experience supporting students with English Language Arts and Spanish instruction. With a background as a literary editor for multiple journals, she enjoys fostering a love of literature and writing for clients of all ages.
Laine offers communication coaching, tutoring, and executive function coaching services throughout the entire United States. She is currently licensed to provide clinical speech therapy services in the states of Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Michigan, Tennessee, and Washington.
Jamie McCurry, M.Ed.
Jamie is a Co-Founder of Carefree Speech and provides executive function coaching and mathematics tutoring services. He is a U.S. Navy veteran and licensed middle- and secondary- mathematics instructor and learning coach with over fifteen years of teaching experience.
Jamie is dedicated to helping clients of all ages develop the skills they need to lead exceptional lives. He takes a compassionate, empowering approach to supporting clients in the areas of executive dysfunction and mathematics tutoring. Having participated in speech therapy himself during childhood and adolescence, he believes in the mission of Carefree Speech to foster a safe, welcoming space for clients to achieve confidence in their communication skills.
He loves spending time with his family and dogs, playing videogames, and listening to 80s music.
Education
Jamie holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and an M.Ed. in Secondary Education from the University of Tennessee. He completed additional coursework to support gifted students and twice exceptional learners in the state of Georgia and, in 2020, he received a Computer Science endorsement to further advance in the area of STEM education.
In 2019, Jamie received a TVA STEM grant as director of an eLab for the Chattanooga Center for Creative Arts to help students create voice-operated prosthetic limbs for amputees.
Experience
Jamie has over fifteen years of experience as a licensed mathematics instructor and learning coach in secondary education. He has worked extensively with gifted, 2E (twice exceptional), and non-traditional learners in alternative and credit recovery programs in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, and Rhode Island.
In addition to his background as an instructor, he has experience in data analytics and software coding. He is passionate about helping clients develop improved executive function skills to support greater independence and success in their lives.