About the Kenny Kids Clinics

Kenny Kids has two locations, one in Coon Rapids and one at Owatonna Hospital. Below you'll read more about each site.

Kenny Kids - Coon Rapids

This Kenny Kids clinic is an expansive space of indoor fun for children participating in physical, occupational and speech therapy.
Outdoor Playground

The clinic has an onsite outdoor playground, with specialized spongy rubber coating for children of all abilities to access without difficulties, while remaining protected during their play. Children are found "working" on the playground, while they practice using their walkers, wheelchairs and adapted bikes during their rehabilitation. They enjoy outdoor fun on slides, climbing equipment, arm bike, paint easels, water play, speaking tubes, toddler movement equipment and an inlaid path for biking, walking, running and wheeling.



Indoor Gym

The clinic also includes an indoor gym space, with room for a variety of swings and a suspended climbing ladder. However, the highlight for many children is to ride the "zip" line and fall into the "pit," a cloud of cushions. Children participate in all these activities, while working to improve strength, coordination, verbal language and cognitive skills and more. Physical therapists provide play opportunities for children in the gym working on mobility, strength and endurance, balance, coordination and flexibility.

Therapy Kitchen

Down the hall from the virtual reality room, children have an opportunity to work on feeding, swallowing and simple home skills in the therapy kitchen. Parents have an opportunity to observe their children learning new skills through the viewing window, if they choose not to be present during the treatment session. The kitchen is a valuable tool when OTs and SLPs complete feeding evaluations on children that are experiencing difficulty with eating or swallowing.

Virtual Reality Room

The fun doesn't stop here. Move into the virtual reality room, and you'll see children swimming, playing soccer, volleyball, snowboarding and more on the state of the art virtual reality system. Here children are participating in their own video game in front of a large green screen. Like a weatherman, they watch their bodies on screen participating in many different activities. To add challenges, therapists provide hand or ankle weights, a balance pad to stand on or a therapy ball to sit on.

Evaluation and Treatment Rooms

The clinic also includes private evaluation rooms, as well as speech and occupational therapy treatment rooms.

In speech, you will find computer games, augmentative communication devices, books, games and toys, along with private treatment rooms for children to explore language and communication opportunities.

In occupational therapy, children have the opportunity to engage in play activities with other children at the craft table, or work with their therapist in the treatment booths. Children can dress up, play games, make crafts and play with developmentally appropriate toys targeted to their individual needs.

Kenny Kids - Owatonna

The dedicated pediatric area at Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute – Owatonna is large, bright and cheery. The therapy gym includes a swing and plenty of room for other fun therapy activities including a climbing wall. When children play on the wall, they also are improving their motor skills, stretch and strengthen their muscles. It also is a fun way to increase developmental capabilities, such as problem solving.

The pediatric area also includes private treatment rooms filled with games and tools to help children overcome their challenges. Since it is so important for parents to continue the work at home, Kenny Kids - Owatonna includes a room where parents can watch their child's therapy session on a closed-circuit TV and pick up tips to work on at home.

Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute
Kenny Kids Pediatric Rehabilitation Program
3111 124th Ave. NW
Coon Rapids, MN 55433
763-236-7337
763-236-8966 fax