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About Dr. Laurence Starr
Dr. Laurence Starr is a Psychologist in private practice in Camden, Maine. He specializes in children and adolescents, especially those with behavioral and learning difficulties. His practice focuses on attention disorders, learning disabilities, biofeedback, neurofeedback and sports psychology. He is the consulting psychologist to the Thomaston School District.
Dr. Starr received his Doctor of Education degree in School Psychology from Rutgers University in 1975. He completed his internship at the Peabody Demonstration School at Peabody College/Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
After completing his internship, Dr. Starr moved to Presque Isle, Maine where he was a staff psychologist at the Aroostook Mental Health Center (AMHC). He was subsequently appointed as Director of Children's Services at the Center where he was responsible for all children's and school services to a county larger than the state of Connecticut. He supervised six psychologists. In addition to consultation services to most of the county schools, AMHC established a multidisciplinary diagnostic team that provided comprehensive evaluations of children with multiple disabilities.
Dr. Starr moved to the coast of Maine and joined the Midcoast Mental Health Center as Director of Consultation Services. He founded and was the director of The Child and Family Center in Camden, a multidisciplinary clinic specializing in the treatment of children, adolescents and families. At The Child and Family Center, Dr. Starr and his colleague, Dr. Robert Dodge, established a doctoral level internship program for school and child psychology. Over the years, interns came to Camden from some of the most prestigious training programs in school psychology. The program was awarded with approval from the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Starr was appointed by the governor of Maine to serve on the state psychology licensing board for four years. He was elected as chairman of the board for two years. It was during this time that he worked closely with the Department of Education to establish joint licensing and certification procedures.
Dr. Starr established his own practice in 1987. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association of Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback, and the Society for Neuronal Regulation. He presents workshops for teachers and parents on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and has provided training at over thirty schools in Maine. Dr. Starr has also supervised school psychology graduate students from the University of Southern Maine.
Dr. Starr lives in Camden with his wife who is a fourth-grade teacher. They collaborated on and published two programs for parents and teachers of children with ADHD.
Dr. and Mrs. Starr have two children, Lindsay and Noah. His interests are in skiing, sailing, and cooking.
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