Adding Orton-Gillingham Reading Services to Your Practice with Elizabeth Doherty
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What motivated Elizabeth Doherty to start her own private practice?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Elizabeth Doherty is a speech language pathologist and reading specialist with a private practice in New York City called Manhattan Speech Language and Literacy. After working in the schools, she decided to start her own private practice in order to gain more flexibility and financial freedom. In this interview, Elizabeth discusses how this niche focus has helped her find success with clients, increase her rates, and now she's providing training to other SLPs. She also talks about how having her own private practice has allowed for immense freedom and flexibility in her life as a mom and a doctoral student.
If you're thinking about adding additional services to your existing private practice, including Orton Gillingham, and you want to learn more, this is a must-listen episode, so stay tuned. I'm Jenna Castro-Kazvan, CEO of the Independent Clinician and founder of Private Practice School. First, I started my own private practice. And then over the past 15 years, I've worked with over 10,000 SLPs and OTs to start and grow their successful private practices so they can have more freedom, flexibility, fulfillment, and finances. I created the Private Practice Success Stories podcast. to share what's possible for you, your family, your clients, and your community when you choose private practice. We'll share everything from small private practice side hustles to flexible lifestyle private practices to traditional brick and mortar practices, and everything in between.
You'll meet regular clinicians, just like you, who followed our steps and are now living their private practice dreams. If they can do it, you can do it too. So let's get started. Oh my goodness. Thank you so much for being on. I have like loved watching you on Instagram the last couple of months. And I feel like your page is kind of blowing up in this really cool way. And so I was like, I have to have her on and hear a little bit more about your practice, but then obviously to what you're doing to expand your business. So can you introduce yourself to everyone who's listening and watching?
Sure. Hi, I'm Elizabeth. I'm a speech language pathologist and I'm also a reading specialist. And like you, you gave me a great introduction. I own a private practice here in Manhattan. And I'm also a doctoral student. I think first getting my doctorate. And I'm focusing on the relationship between speech language and reading. So I'm really deep into my niche of speech pathology and supporting students in reading.
And what an important niche, right? Like there are so many people who are, you know, kids and I mean adults too, who have a hard time with reading, right? And I feel, I mean, you can tell me if this is correct or not, but it feels like a bigger problem since COVID. Is that accurate?
Yes and no. So there's totally like the COVID slide and that regression, you know, students missed out on really important years of school. Like every year of school is important, so whether you're in kindergarten or eleventh grade, if you miss out on learning, you miss out on learning. But what COVID kind of brought to light, especially when classrooms were opened up over Zoom and parents and everyone else was finally able to listen in, was that not all of their reading instruction was
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What motivated Elizabeth Doherty to start her own private practice?
0:00–6:43
2
How did she discover the need for Orton‑Gillingham services in her community?
6:43–11:02
3
What steps did she take to grow her practice through school referrals and networking?
11:02–16:15
4
How does offering Orton‑Gillingham boost client outcomes and allow higher rates?
16:15–22:26
5
What strategies does she use to balance motherhood, doctoral studies, and a private practice?
22:26–27:48
6
How can other SLPs get trained in Orton‑Gillingham quickly and affordably?
27:48–31:37
7
What financial advantages come from adding a niche reading service to a private practice?
31:37–32:39
8
Where can listeners learn more and enroll in Elizabeth’s Orton‑Gillingham course?
32:39–33:43
Speakers
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