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You can contact us at any of our locations to set up an initial evaluation. We are a provider for many health insurance programs, but it is essential that you check your own policy to determine if a doctor’s order is needed and what your individual policy covers. For your convenience, we will submit your claims to the insurance company. A current copy of your insurance cards is essential to maintain timely and accurate communication with the insurance company about your claims. All co-pays and private payments are due at the time of your visit.
We accept cash, check, Visa, Mastercard and Discover. Kid Talk is a provider for most insurance plans.
Step 1
Please contact our scheduling team at 952-443-9888 to schedule an initial evaluation.
Step 2
Set up your patient portal account by clicking the email link that is sent to you after your evaluation is scheduled. The link is only active for one hour from the time it is sent, so if you need the link resent, contact our scheduling team at 952-443-9888.
Step 3
Complete and submit the following forms through your patient portal: General Case History Form, Consent to Evaluate and Treat, Kid Talk Service Agreement, and the HIPAA notice.
Step 4
Insurance companies require an order for evaluation and/or treatment. Contact your primary care physician to obtain a doctor’s referral and have them fax it to 952-443-9804.
Step 5
Contact your insurance company to determine your coverage and benefits and confirm that Kid Talk is an in-network provider. Please complete and submit the Health Insurance Benefit worksheet through your patient portal once you have verified your benefits. Please be sure to bring your insurance card to your initial appointment.
Does My Child Need Help?
Consider having your child evaluated by a speech and language pathologist if any of these characteristics are noted:
At Any Age if...
- you are concerned about any aspect of speech or language development.
- you are concerned about your child’s fluency.
- your child is frustrated or embarrassed by his or her speech.
- you have learned your child is hearing impaired.
As an infant your child...
- does not swallow well, has difficulty chewing, or has delayed oral-motor development.
- has a cleft palate.
- demonstrates neuro-motor impairment.
- has neurological or structural deficits that put him/her at a high risk for later communication or feeding problems.
At 18 months if your child...
- is not talking, has little speech sound play, or few consonants.
has fewer than ten words, but has an advanced gesture system. - does not respond accurately to short, simple directions accompanied by gesture.
- shows any of the previously listed problems
At 2 years if your child...
- has few words and is not obviously increasing his or her vocabulary.
- has many words, but is unintelligible, with very few consonants or a lot of vowel distortions.
- does not understand short directions or simple questions, or does not pay attention to talking.
- shows any of the previously listed problems.
At 3 years if your child...
- is very difficult to understand.
- consistently omits initial consonants.
- has excessive nasal tone.
- is not combining three and four words into connected utterances.
- still has a lot of jargon.
- echoes a lot and does not initiate many of his own utterances.
- cannot follow two-step commands or does not respond appropriately to who, what or where questions.
- has an excessive amount of dysfluencies and is showing obvious tension or actually blocks (freezes) on some of his sounds.
- has any of the previous problems listed.
At 4 years if your child...
- is hard to understand
- consistently drops word endings.
- has noticeably faulty sentence structure.
- has consistent difficulty pronouncing multisyllabic words and either mixes up the sound order or drops out whole syllables.
- is not able to relate events with good sequence and information content.
- has any of the previous problems listed.
At 5 years if your child...
- has difficulty following directions and attending to verbal information in a classroom setting.
- does not speak in complete sentences.
- has a harsh, hoarse, or unusual voice.
- has a suspected learning disability that may be language based.
- has any of the previous problems listed.
Does My Adolescent Need Help?
Consider having your adolescent or teenager evaluated by a speech and language pathologist if any of these characteristics are noted: