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Empowering Australian Speech Pathologists: Supervision, Training, Launch Support, and Resources for Speech Pathologists in Private Practice
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We are experienced, practising speech pathologists with a deep understanding of the real world challenges of private practice and clinical work.
We help Australian speech pathologists by providing:
- supervision training for Australian speech pathology managers looking to supervise speech pathologists in private practice:
- external supervision for Australian speech pathologists working in settings without an experienced speech pathologist manager;
- practice launch support for speech pathologists looking to launch their own private practices, including business planning and therapy resource navigation;
- legal and compliance training for private practice owners and staff who need to understand their obligations to regulators, including Speech Pathology Australia, and the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission; and
- inexpensive employment, business, and NDIS templates and other resources to help owners operate their private practices.
We are owned and managed by the experienced management team at Banter Speech & Language, who also supply our therapy resources. For NDIS resources, we work with The Provider Loft, also managed by the Banter Speech & Language team.
External Supervision
Would you or one of your speech pathologists benefit from external supervision from a senior speech pathologist?
We can help. Give us a call to find out more.
David Kinnane
Principal Speech Pathologist
David is a speech pathologist, lawyer, and clinic owner with over 25 years of professional experience across a range of industries and organisations. As a supervisor, he is passionate about supporting speech pathologists to back themselves to enjoy long, interesting, and fulfilling careers. As a front-line clinician, he has special interests in DLD, literacy, stuttering, Parkinson’s disease, disability rights, and plain English knowledge translation.
Vivien Wong
Senior Speech Pathologist
As a supervisor, Vivien acknowledges what a privilege it is to journey with other clinicians, and to equip them with the knowledge, skills, and empathy to provide holistic and client-centred care. Clinically, Vivien’s special interests include supporting bilingual clients and families; working with clients with selective mutism; partnering with young adults to achieve their participation related goals; and supporting professionals to further their professional communication skills.
Juliana Li
Senior Speech Pathologist
As a supervisor, Juliana is driven to resource and uplift clinicians, and support the development of their advocacy skills as they work towards ‘the big picture’ in client care. As a clinician, Juliana’s special interests include neurodiversity-affirming practice across the lifespan; supporting oral and written language development; helping clients with severe speech sound disorders including childhood apraxia of speech (CAS); and delivering peer-mediated communication opportunities for people of all ages to increase their social inclusion.
Sasha Sugita
Senior Speech Pathologist
New Practice Launch Navigation
Thinking about launching your own practice is exciting! But it can also be stressful.
It helps to have someone on your side. Read more below.
From dreams to reality
If you haven’t done so already, please download our FREE Launch-to-Waitlist Guide, detailing the five steps we took to launch our practice successfully, updated for this year!
Know where you’re going with a plan
If your plans are coming along, check out our inexpensive Business Planning Kit for Speech Pathologists.
Build systems and processes
If you’re like us, you want to spend most of your time preparing to meet your first clients. But don’t neglect the back office! Check out our popular SLP Clinic Templates Manual, designed to avoid you having to reinvent the wheel and to get you up and running from day 1.
Clinical Resource Navigation
No one wants to spend money on unnecessary resources before launch. (We certainly didn’t!) But you also don’t want to open your doors without the clinical resources needed to do a good clinical job for your first clients.
Introducing our Therapy Resource Essentials Service.
Based on your target clients and business plan, our speech pathologist provides you with personalised advice on the minimum resources you need to get started, with specific resource recommendations, including resources tried, tested and used at Banter Speech & Language. If this sounds helpful, give us a call for a chat!
Legal and compliance training for speech pathologists in private practice
There’s a famous saying that “ignorance of the law is no excuse”, which means you can get in trouble with regulators, even if you don’t know what you’re meant to do (or not do). The regulation of speech pathologists is getting more complex, especially with recent changes to the NDIS.
Our David Kinnane is a dual qualified lawyer and speech pathologist. He is passionate about making sure speech pathologists understand their key legal obligations.
If you think you or your team would benefit from some legal and compliance training, please give us a call.
