{"id":35334,"date":"2025-06-20T12:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/?post_type=ud_entry&p=35334"},"modified":"2025-06-20T12:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:08:37","slug":"laurie-ray","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/people\/laurie-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurie Ray, PT, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":35335,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[28,54],"class_list":["post-35334","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-pt","ud_division-shines","odd"],"acf":[],"ud_entry_custom_fields":{"ud_last_name":"Ray","ud_first_name":"Laurie","ud_gallery_summary":"

The majority of my work is to serve as a resource for anyone with questions or concerns about their practice, school-based physical therapy, ethical concerns, appropriate funding, and evidence-based practices. I work for and with many stakeholders: school-based and other physical therapist practitioners, NC board of physical therapy examiners, Exceptional Children program directors, parents and family members of students, case workers, school nurses, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, special education teachers, adapted physical education specialists, general physical education teachers, policy makers, finance and compliance staff and other DPI staff, among others. The focus of all these collaborations are to ensure students with disabilities are well served in NC public schools.
\nI hope my work supports public schools in all parts of NC and beyond, to provide every student with a disability receives excellent services and education. 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