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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 26
BY SENATOR DONAHUE
A RESOLUTION
To commend Dr. Lacey LeBlanc Seymour upon receipt of the 2016 Early Career
Psychologist Award from the Louisiana Psychological Association.
WHEREAS, Dr. Lacey Seymour is the founder and CEO of the Live Oak Children's
Center, a multi-disciplinary pediatric therapy center located in Covington, Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Seymour is both a licensed psychologist and licensed behavior
analyst with over ten years of experience working with children in both clinical and
educational settings; and
WHEREAS, psychologists like Dr. Lacey Seymour have advanced the creation,
communication, evaluation, and application of psychoanalytical knowledge to benefit
society and to improve the everyday lives of their patients; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Seymour received a Doctor of Psychology from Louisiana State
University and completed an internship and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Kennedy
Krieger Institute, an affiliate of the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore, Maryland; and
WHEREAS, in St. Tammany Parish Dr. Seymour has worked as a consultant in both
the public and private school settings along with school personnel to design effective
behavioral and academic interventions for at-risk students; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Seymour provides outpatient psychological and behavioral services
to both typically developing children as well as children with special needs in a variety of
clinical settings that include early intervention mental health, autism, speech and hearing,
and pediatric developmental disorders; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Seymour is an active participant in several community organizations
in the Covington area and is currently serving as president of the Louisiana Psychological
Association; and
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WHEREAS, the Louisiana Psychological Association, as the state professional
association representing psychologists in all practice, research, and academic settings, works
to further the development of psychology in applied practice and as a means of promoting
human welfare; and
WHEREAS, as president of the Louisiana Psychological Association, Dr. Seymour
provides leadership for the more than seven hundred fifty licensed psychologists who
practice in this state to serve the mental health needs of the people of Louisiana.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend Dr. Lacey LeBlanc Seymour upon receipt of the 2016 Early Career
Psychologist Award from the American Psychological Association.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
Dr. Lacey LeBlanc Seymour, President of the Louisiana Psychological Association.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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