We provide individualized speech therapy services to children and adolescents in the Twin Cities area. We enjoy working with families and children to help them find their voice and effectively communicate at home, school, and in all environments. Urban Speech Therapy specializes in childhood apraxia of speech, fluency, language delays, and speech sound disorders, but we work with all communication disorders. We believe it is important to have family involved in all aspects of prevention and remediation of speech therapy to ensure carryover of skills.

Speech and Language Connections is a pediatric speech and language clinic for children ages infant to adolescence. We specialize in providing child centered speech pathology services. Children need effective communication skills (SPEECH and LANGUAGE) as a foundation for the successful participation in activities at home, school and in the community. We strive to build these critical skills, so children are prepared to fully participate in the world in which they live (CONNECTIONS). We embrace a team effort in building a child’s communication skills by working collaboratively with parents, care givers, teachers and other health professionals. Speech and Language Connections provides assessment and treatment of speech and language skills associated with: Speech Therapy Services Articulation (phonology) Expressive language (use of language) Receptive language (understanding of language) Voice disorders Hearing loss Fluency disorder Apraxia of speech Social skills training Autism or Asperger’s syndrome Cognitive communication delay Tongue thrust Orofacial myofunctional disorders

Advance Therapy is an outpatient pediatric clinic in the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities. We provide a variety of services for children of all ages and abilities. Our mission is to provide personal guidance and outstanding therapeutic services for your child and family. We strive for every child to reach his or her full potential by using a multisensory approach. Occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech language pathologists often work with children diagnosed with PDD, Autism, Aspergers, Auditory processing disorders, Developmental delay, Learning disabilities, Down syndrome, and Cerebral palsy, as well as others. In addition to conventional occupational and speech language therapy, we offer several specialty programs to facilitate achievement of your child’s goals: Berard Auditory Integration Training, Integrated Listening Systems, Interactive Metronome, Social Skills Groups, Feeding Groups, Adapted Yoga, Music Therapy and more! EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE Age-appropriate sentence length or structure Vocabulary or word finding skills Asking questions Peer interactions RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE Understanding of spoken language/auditory processing Understanding of basic concepts, “wh” questions Following multi-step directions and sequences Reading non-verbal cues/body language COGNITION Attending Phonological awareness Auditory memory Recalling information Problem Solving Reasoning Logic Organizing Turn-taking Understanding boundaries