ABA Therapy in Edina, Minnesota
Edina and our center share one road: Highway 100 runs from the middle of Edina straight north to our Golden Valley door in about fifteen minutes. In-home ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) covers every Edina neighborhood as well — your family picks the one setting your child's program will call home.
- Drive to our center
- ~15 min
- County
- Hennepin County
- School district
- Edina 273
Not every ABA provider in Minnesota accepts Medical Assistance. We do.
Ability Avenues accepts Straight MA and Blue Plus, and we're enrolled in EIDBI (Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention) — the Minnesota benefit that funds autism therapy for eligible children. Most families we serve pay $0 out of pocket.
Center-based or in-home in Edina?
For Edina families the center is a single-highway habit — no interchanges to memorize, just 100 north to Duluth Street. At fifteen minutes, it fits around school days and activity schedules without drama.
In-home earns its place differently here: for children whose hardest moments are transitions, siblings, or the dinner table, teaching inside those moments beats rehearsing them elsewhere. Edina's in-home families get the identical program and BCBA oversight.
You choose one setting, and it carries everything. If it stops fitting — a new school year, a new job, a child who's outgrown the room — you and your BCBA move the program across, whole.
One child, one setting: your child's program runs in the one you choose — and if it stops fitting, you and your BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst) can switch, never split.
Getting to our center from Edina
One road: Highway 100 north from anywhere along Edina's spine — 50th Street, Vernon, Benton — to the Duluth Street exit, then Lilac Drive North to 1415, Suite 140. Fifteen minutes, give or take the school-zone clock.
From far-western Edina near Braemar, Highway 62 east to 100 north adds a couple of minutes at most.
- Typical drive
- ~15 min
- Main route
- Hwy 100 north to the Duluth Street exit
- Where you're headed
- 1415 Lilac Dr N, Suite 140, Golden Valley, MN 55422
Do you serve all of Edina?
Yes, all of Edina — Morningside and the Country Club blocks, the Cahill area, the neighborhoods around Braemar. In-home therapists cover the whole city, and the center is a straight highway run from every part of it.
Edina families often ask about after-school availability specifically: both settings can host late-afternoon sessions, and we schedule around District 273 hours as a matter of course.
Ability Avenues supports families whose children attend Edina Public Schools (District 273) and can coordinate with your child's IEP (Individualized Education Program) team.
Edina questions, answered
The things Edina families ask us most — coverage, the drive, and how starting actually works.
How close is your center to Edina?
About fifteen minutes straight up Highway 100 — from 50th & Vernon it's one road, one exit (Duluth Street), and you're at our door on Lilac Drive North.
Do Edina families use in-home ABA, or is that just for farther cities?
They use it plenty. In-home isn't a distance consolation — it's the better clinical fit when a child's goals live in home routines. Every Edina address is covered, and the program is identical to the center's.
Could we enroll at the center and add home sessions later?
Not as an addition — a program runs in one setting at a time, always. What you can do is switch: if the center stops being the right fit, you and your BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst) move the entire program home, or the reverse.
Does Ability Avenues take Medical Assistance for Edina children?
Yes — Straight MA and Blue Plus, with Minnesota's EIDBI (Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention) benefit typically covering intensive therapy in full for eligible children. That's true regardless of which Edina neighborhood you call home.
Near Edina, too
Edina's neighbors are on our map too — each page below answers for its own community.
See everywhere we serveAsk about availability in Edina
One call from Edina settles the practical questions — availability, the Highway 100 run versus in-home, and what your coverage handles — before any forms.