Our Team

Janet is a certified, speech-language pathologist with 40 years experience working with children and adults throughout her career. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Speech Pathology from UCM (formerly CMSU) and began providing services in the schools in 1981. She worked in several school districts, including Holden, Knob Noster and Warrensburg and retired from the public school system in 2013. During the years she also provided services for First Steps, Home Health, and at Skilled Nursing Facilities, plus several supervisory positions. Most recently, she worked part-time at Western MO Medical Center, in outpatient pediatric rehab services. After retiring again, she took several months off and realized she missed it! She contacted The Pediatric Place and was offered this rewarding career opportunity to jump back into a part time position! She’s BACK and we are so excited to have her and all of her wonderful experience!! She has been married for 36 years to Charlie and they have 2 amazing adult children, Kelli and Chas, an award winning cat “Chunk” & Florabama dog, Riley.