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ClinicChats episodes — conversations with clinicians and clinic owners across every discipline.
A conversation with Kate Grandbois, MS, CCC-SLP, BCBA, LABA on supervising new clinicians, evidence-based practice, and what every program should be teaching.
Kristi Chamberlain started Peninsula Pediatric Therapies in Virginia for one reason: flexibility. Three days a week during school hours, be there for her…
Renee Robles had a two-month-old, a 13-month-old, and exactly three days to transition 700 patients to telehealth. It was May 2020, and she and her busine…
Kyla Grahl didn't quit her hospital job and open a clinic overnight. She started with a single telepractice contract for a rural school district, a part-t…
Erin Ziegler has a PhD in communication sciences and a theater degree from the University of Michigan. Jennifer Gill performed opera professionally and ho…
Stuart Bradley was told it couldn't be done. Take endoscopy equipment portable? Build a private practice around mobile FEES evaluations? The big equipment…
When one of your school sites is a 70-mile drive from the district office, sending an SLP out for four kids starts to look less like a staffing plan and m…
Jenn Gethers graduated in May 2020 and walked straight into a pandemic. Her CF year started with two weeks of remote therapy, then shifted to a hybrid mod…
Sarah Badiman spent years as a healthcare administrator trying to find HIPAA compliance software that actually worked without draining the budget. She cou…
Corey Roan started Milestone Pediatric Therapy in the summer of 2017 with a couple of OTs doing early intervention home visits. By September, she'd taken…
Lori Melnitsky couldn't say her own name. Not fluently, not without a fight. She became an accountant for five years because it felt safer than being hear…
Caroline Skidmore started her private practice three weeks after her first son was born. That was 2002. Eighteen years later, she's still running Skidmore…
Aliza Shahar has been practicing speech therapy for 20 years. She's worked with autism, hippotherapy, pediatric feeding, and adult swallowing. But when sh…
Elizabeth Morrison and her two business partners were all unemployed. The private practice they'd been working for was going out of business, and there we…
Maria Gianfilippo watched her parents run a business growing up. She saw the late nights, the financial stress, and the freedom on the other side. So when…
Liz Horn and her business partner Kayla Mashoff didn't sit down with a spreadsheet and a five-year plan. They were hanging out over Christmas break with t…
Craig Goldslager didn't know what an SLP was before he married one. His wife Lauren was still in grad school when they met, and she promptly introduced hi…
Jena Castro-Casbon didn't plan on building a business. She wanted to work with adults in a hospital, help people recover from strokes and brain injuries,…
Tracy Klein spent five years building a mobile private practice in Denver. She was seeing kids at private schools, contracting with early intervention, an…
Erica Krasinowski opened Discovery Speech Language and Literacy in January 2020. Two months later, a global pandemic rewrote every plan she'd made. But he…
Most speech-language pathologists pick a lane. Pediatrics or adults. Clinical or corporate. Sonia Sethi-Coley picked all of them.
Corinne Vargas spent years crunching numbers at Deloitte Consulting before she realized the thing that actually lit her up wasn't on any spreadsheet. It w…
Lori Kaplan-Cologne didn't plan on pediatrics. She came out of graduate school chasing a hospital position in adult rehab. But life had other plans, and t…
Katie Carney didn't plan to become an infant feeding therapist. She was a pediatric SLP with an early intervention caseload, a new baby, and a nagging fee…
Teresa Harp filed her LLC paperwork two full years before she saw her first client. That might sound like procrastination, but it was actually a calculate…
Kate Grandbois does one thing, and she does it well. She works with non-speaking individuals who have behavioral challenges, fits them for AAC tools, and…
"We'd rather continue in some form with our families." That was Amy Prince's answer when asked what happens if insurance doesn't reimburse for teletherapy…
Jamie Henderson calls clinical supervision an art. It's the kind of thing you don't fully appreciate until you're three years into the role, watching grad…
Brittany Ferri hit a wall three years into her career as an occupational therapist. The burnout was real. Instead of pushing through it, she did something…
Nola Radford didn't set out to run a clinic. She set out to change how clinicians are made.
Gail Whitelaw knew she wanted to be an audiologist at age 11. She met one, made up her mind, and never looked back. Twenty-five years into directing the S…
School districts across the country can't find enough speech-language pathologists. The shortage is real, and it's not going away. But Melissa Keller and…
Ibtisam Mustak didn't start in speech-language pathology. She started in international development, working grassroots nonprofit jobs and eventually becom…
Joy McKenzie still remembers the exact moment everything shifted. March 12th, 5 a.m. She opened her email and saw the first notification: students at loca…
Maggie Block had been meaning to explore teletherapy. It was on the list, somewhere between updating her website and taking new professional headshots. Th…
Lucie LeDoux doesn't pretend to have it all figured out. She's been running Shine Pediatric Therapy and Learning since 2011, she's moved cities, dissolved…
A boy pushed another kid off a swing. When Rhonda Osisek asked him why, he said, "Well, Miss Rhonda, I wanted a turn on the swing." Just like that. Matter…
"I have so much respect for SLPs in the schools because I don't know how you do it. It's stressful as it is with just speech sound disorders."
"I have nowhere to send these kids."
Most EMR software companies start with a technical roadmap. ClinicNote started with a complaint about documentation.
"Instead of giving away a percentage of my income, I can probably do this myself."
"I would be like, so just so you know, the school district office offers services. And if you have insurance, they'll have a list of providers." Angie Hro…
"I kept getting the feeling like, no, you should try this, you should do it."
Amy Prince and Amber Ladd once split a tiny rented office with a padded tumbling mat stood up vertically in the middle of the room. That was the divider.…
Julia Mari was working three jobs, seeing 65 patients across all of them, squeezing families into 30-minute sessions because there simply weren't enough h…
Sarah Martin didn't take the typical path into speech-language pathology. Her first career was in journalism, where she spent years impacting large groups…
A daycare director stopped Roshanda Epps at drop-off one morning and asked a simple question: "Do you see kids on your own?"
Sherri Cawn has been a speech pathologist for 50 years. She's trained internationally, co-authored DVDs with ASHA, and helped build Chicago into one of th…
"At 18 months, if you would have evaluated them in English, they would have looked severely delayed."
"I'm the product that I'm selling. It's very intimate. It's very personal."
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