ABA Therapy in Coon Rapids, MN

For families seeking ABA therapy in Coon Rapids, MN, the Mississippi River is not the barrier it looks like on a map. Highway 610 carries you across it, and Neurolink Academy's Brooklyn Park clinic is about twenty minutes from most of the 55433 and 55448 neighborhoods. We provide BCBA-led applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy for children ages 2 to 10 and are an enrolled EIDBI provider. EIDBI, short for Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention, is the Minnesota benefit that funds intensive autism therapy through Medical Assistance.

Does the county line matter?

Coon Rapids sits in Anoka County while our clinic is in Hennepin County, and parents often ask whether that complicates anything. It does not. EIDBI is a statewide benefit: your child's eligibility, covered services, and costs are identical on either side of the river. Even ride support crosses the line cleanly, because Anoka and Hennepin counties are both part of the Twin Cities metro system for non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT), the Medical Assistance benefit that can cover rides to therapy when a family cannot drive. Where you live changes the route, not the rules.

The drive: one bridge, one highway

From the Riverdale area or anywhere along Coon Rapids Boulevard, take Highway 610 west across the Mississippi into Brooklyn Park, then exit toward the Boone Avenue N area. The clinic is at 7100 Northland Circle N, Suite 201, just east of Highway 169. From neighborhoods near the Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park, some families prefer to cross at the dam's West River Road side and come down through Brooklyn Park on local roads. Either way, plan on roughly twenty minutes, most of it on the freeway rather than in stop-and-go traffic.

Twenty minutes is a real commitment when therapy runs 20 to 40 hours a week under an Individual Treatment Plan (ITP). Families make it work the way they would a preschool commute: a consistent drop-off rhythm, hours mapped around school and naps, and a schedule built with our team during intake instead of guessed at.

Why Coon Rapids families make the trip

The honest answer is coverage plus quality. Several of the metro's most visible ABA providers do not accept Minnesota Medicaid, which rules out every EIDBI family by definition. We built our practice the other way around: we accept Straight MA, HealthPartners PMAP, Blue Cross Blue Shield PMAP (Blue Plus), and MA TEFRA, and our insurance and EIDBI coverage page spells out what that means in dollars (for most EIDBI families, zero out of pocket).

The clinical side is what keeps families driving the bridge: a center-based program led by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), individual goals drawn from your family's priorities, and parent coaching so progress travels home to Coon Rapids with your child. Many of the children we serve also attend Anoka-Hennepin schools, and we coordinate therapy hours around the school calendar rather than against it.

Ready to see whether we are the right fit? Start intake. It takes about five minutes, and our team verifies your child's coverage and answers the river-crossing logistics questions before you commit to anything.