Private Practice Focused on Social Groups and "Edventures" with Barbara Earley and April Lowe
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Barbara Early and April Lowe are speech language pathologists who co-own a very innovative private practice in Georgia called Social Adventures, which includes small group social outings for teenagers and young adults with a variety of diagnoses and abilities. In this episode, they discuss how they started off very informally with a small group outing at a bowling alley, which quickly expanded to include regular. social outings for young adults and adolescents with diverse needs, ranging from typical college students to nonverbal individuals using AAC devices and everybody in between.
They even discuss a connection to the popular Netflix series Love on the Spectrum. If you've been thinking about starting a non-traditional private practice or offering social events for your clients, 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. I love to share all kinds of ways for people to be in private practice and just share all of the stories so that people can be inspired. So what I would love to do just to start off is could each of you kind of take turns introducing yourselves and kind of sharing a little bit about how you got started in private practice.
Your sir. Barb, good. Sure. I'm Barbara. My name is Barbara Early. I've been a speech therapist for thirty years. Predate practice has kind of been a little dip into it for a very long time. And This idea has been brewing forever and so it's really just taken off in the last, I'd say what, two and a half, three years? Probably two. And quite organically. I'm not gonna say it's planned. Sometimes
right. Sometimes the best things, right? Like you come out with like an idea and then your idea kinda runs wild and sometimes turns out like way better than you thought. My name is April Lowe and I also have thirty
years um with the school system. I was in the box. I've done some contract work. with a clinic here in town. I go into people's homes on my own. You run into people in town and they're asking you questions all the time. Oh, I've got a child this age. But anyway, my background has been varied in one building, believe it or not. Ай філлак на скул систем. Even though a lot of people we were talking about this earlier, that a lot of people the school system is hard and a lot of people are trying to do their private practice. But I do feel that it has given us both the tools.
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Chapters
6 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:33
2
What inspired Barbara and April to start Social EdVentures?
4:33–22:10
3
How did a simple bowling outing become the first Social EdVentures event?
22:10–32:29
4
What types of participants do the Social EdVentures groups serve?
32:29–39:46
5
How do the groups create real‑world social learning experiences?
39:46–42:20
6
How does the program handle safety and unexpected situations during outings?
42:20–49:36
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