Beyond Speech

What Beyond Speech does

Beyond Speech LLC is a private pediatric therapy practice headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, founded in 2010 by Caroline Crow (M.S., CCC-SLP) and Bryan Crow. It delivers speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, literacy and dyslexia intervention, and social skills therapy to children from infancy through high school, alongside comprehensive speech-language and occupational evaluations. The clinical approach is multi-sensory and individualized, drawing on a portfolio of licensed, evidence-based methodologies including the Lindamood Bell Visualizing and Verbalizing Program, IMSE Orton-Gillingham, Beckman Oral Motor, Kaufman Apraxia, PECS, Focus on Fluency, Preschool Stuttering Curriculum, and Lively Letters.

The practice generates revenue primarily through insurance-billed therapy services (Medicaid, AR Kids A & B, TEFRA, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna, United Healthcare, and UMR) with private pay as a secondary stream processed via Square. Services are delivered through three distribution channels: clinic-based sessions at 5905 Forest Place, Suite 220, in-home/travel therapy, and on-site therapy embedded in approximately 10 partner schools across Central Arkansas (including The Anthony School, Episcopal Collegiate, Pulaski Academy, Little Rock Christian Academy, The Goddard School, Holy Souls, Christ the King, Christ Lutheran, St. Mark's Preschool, and area Montessori schools). A Conway, Arkansas location is publicly stated as coming soon.

Operational scale is small - approximately 10 staff including the co-founders, multiple ASHA-certified speech-language pathologists, and licensed occupational therapists - with no external funding, no subsidiaries, no digital product, and no disclosed AI capabilities. Academic affiliations with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville provide adjunct-teaching and clinical-training ties that support both recruitment and clinical credibility.

Name

Beyond Speech

Legal name

Beyond Speech LLC

Website

https://beyondspeechar.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Beyond Speech is a pediatric therapy practice in Little Rock, Arkansas that provides speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, literacy/dyslexia intervention, and evaluations to children from infancy through high school across Central Arkansas.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pediatric Therapy Services

NAICS

Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists (621340)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAKAEAE

Language Disorders Intervention (Receptive/Expressive, Morphology/Syntax/Semantics)

Education/Special Education & Learning Support Services/Speech-Language Therapy Services (School-Age)

SECONDARYEDAKAEAJ

Literacy-Related Language Intervention (Phonological Awareness, Narrative, Curriculum Language)

Education/Special Education & Learning Support Services/Speech-Language Therapy Services (School-Age)

SECONDARYEDAKAEAG

Fluency (Stuttering/Cluttering) Services (School-Age)

Education/Special Education & Learning Support Services/Speech-Language Therapy Services (School-Age)

SECONDARYEDAKAEAB

Speech & Language Screening and Assessment (School-Age)

Education/Special Education & Learning Support Services/Speech-Language Therapy Services (School-Age)

Keywords

• Pediatric speech therapy
• Occupational therapy services
• Speech-language pathology
• Literacy intervention programs
• Dyslexia intervention services

Headquarters

HQ city

Little Rock

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Insurance-Billed Therapy Services: Beyond Speech accepts multiple major insurance plans including Medicaid, AR Kids A & B, TEFRA, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna, United Healthcare, and UMR. Services are billed through insurance based on the child's individualized therapy plan.
2. Private Pay: The clinic offers private pay options for families without insurance coverage or those preferring out-of-pocket payment. Secure online payments are available through Square.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Beyond Speech is a pediatric therapy clinic that provides speech-language pathology therapy, occupational therapy, and literacy/dyslexia intervention services to children from infancy through high school in Central Arkansas. The clinic delivers individualized therapy plans through clinic-based, in-home, and school-based settings, using evidence-based methodologies such as Lindamood Bell, Orton-Gillingham, Beckman Oral Motor, PECS, and Lively Letters. It also provides comprehensive speech-language and occupational therapy evaluations.

Product overview

Beyond Speech is a pediatric therapy clinic providing speech-language pathology and occupational therapy services to children from infancy through high school in Central Arkansas. The company operates as a single-service clinic with multiple specialized offerings: Speech-Language Pathology (evaluations and therapy), Occupational Therapy, Literacy Skills/Dyslexia Services, and Social Skills Therapy. Beyond Speech also offers comprehensive evaluations for both speech-language and occupational therapy. Specialized programs include the Lindamood Bell Visualizing and Verbalizing Program for reading comprehension and the Focus on Fluency elementary program for stuttering intervention.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Speech-Language Pathology Therapy Therapy services to improve articulation, receptive and expressive language skills, fluency, social communication, written expression, reading comprehension, and auditory memory for children from infancy through high school age. Delivered by licensed Speech-Language Pathologists.
• Occupational Therapy Therapy services to help children with attention, emotional regulation, activities of daily living, handwriting, feeding skills, sensory processing, coordination, gross motor skills, and reflex integration. Provided by licensed Occupational Therapists.
• Literacy Skills and Dyslexia Intervention Services Reading and comprehension services addressing phonological awareness, sound-symbol correspondence, decoding, spelling, reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills, including implementation of the Lindamood Bell Visualizing and Verbalizing Program. Targeted at children with dyslexia and literacy difficulties.
• Social Skills Therapy Therapy focused on helping children understand and express emotions, control anger, problem solve, develop conversational skills, and build perspective-taking abilities for improved social communication.
• Speech-Language Evaluations Comprehensive evaluations assessing articulation skills, apraxia, fluency, early communication, grammar, listening comprehension, auditory memory, problem solving, written expression, phonological awareness, decoding, and reading comprehension. Used to identify child strengths and areas of need.
• Occupational Therapy Evaluations Comprehensive evaluations assessing fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, visual motor integration, pre-writing skills, handwriting, pencil grasp, motor coordination, reflex integration, sensory integration, sensory processing, and activities of daily living.
• Focus on Fluency Program Elementary-level stuttering intervention program for school-aged children experiencing fluency disorders.
• Lindamood Bell Visualizing and Verbalizing Program Reading comprehension program that improves a child's ability to recall details, determine the main idea, summarize information, and answer higher-order thinking questions. Used as a structured literacy intervention for children with reading comprehension difficulties.
• Preschool Stuttering Curriculum Early intervention curriculum for preschool-aged children experiencing fluency disorders and stuttering.

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• University of Arkansas for Medical SciencescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCaroline Crow serves as an adjunct professor with UAMS teaching the course on Literacy Disorders to Master's Level speech-pathologist students, representing an educational partnership that informs clinical practice with academic research.
• University of Arkansas at FayettevilleminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHannah Freeman was in the inaugural cohort for the collaborative OTD program between University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and UAMS.
• The Anthony SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBeyond Speech provides on-site speech and occupational therapy services at The Anthony School as part of their school partnership program.
• Episcopal CollegiatecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBeyond Speech provides on-site therapy services at Episcopal Collegiate school.
• Holy Souls SchoolminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBeyond Speech provides on-site therapy services at Holy Souls School.
• Christ the King SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBeyond Speech provides on-site therapy services at Christ the King School. Beth Brewer previously worked as Learning Assistance Director at this school.
• Little Rock Christian AcademycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBeyond Speech provides on-site therapy services at Little Rock Christian Academy.
• Pulaski AcademycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBeyond Speech provides on-site therapy services at Pulaski Academy.
• The Goddard SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBeyond Speech provides on-site therapy services at The Goddard School.
• Christ Lutheran SchoolminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBeyond Speech provides on-site therapy services at Christ Lutheran School.
• St. Mark's PreschoolminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBeyond Speech provides on-site therapy services at St. Mark's Preschool.
• Montessori Schools (Area)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBeyond Speech provides on-site therapy services at several Montessori schools in the area.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Speech and Language Kids: Pediatric speech therapy practice offering in-clinic, teletherapy, and parent-coaching services; directly comparable GTM (parent-direct, multi-channel) to Beyond Speech, with a stronger telehealth posture.
• Prism Autism Center / Local Arkansas Pediatric SLP Clinics: Arkansas-based pediatric therapy providers offering SLP, OT, and ABA services; comparable on service line and Central Arkansas geography, representing the local competitive set Beyond Speech operates within.

Emerging players

• Great Speech: Telehealth-first pediatric and adult speech therapy company; overlaps with Beyond Speech on speech-language pathology services and insurance billing, competing for the same parent demographic online.
• Expressable: National telehealth and in-home pediatric/adult speech therapy provider; comparable to Beyond Speech on SLP service line and pediatric focus, but competes via online delivery rather than a brick-and-mortar clinic.

Others

• Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes: Provider of literacy and reading intervention programs (including Visualizing & Verbalizing) that Beyond Speech's clinicians are trained in; an upstream content/certification provider rather than a direct competitor.

Direct peers

• Chatterbox Pediatric Therapy: Pediatric speech and occupational therapy clinic serving children with speech, language, and developmental needs; comparable service mix, payer model, and parent-direct GTM to Beyond Speech.
• Pediatric Therapy Network: Non-profit pediatric SLP/OT clinic delivering speech, occupational, and physical therapy to children with developmental delays; comparable service line, payer mix, and multidisciplinary pediatric care model.
• The Hello Clinic: Multi-disciplinary pediatric speech, occupational, and feeding therapy practice; highly comparable business model to Beyond Speech, combining SLP and OT services for children in an outpatient clinic setting.

Broad incumbents

• Centria Healthcare: National provider of pediatric behavioral health, SLP, and OT services including ABA; comparable on the pediatric SLP/OT service line and insurance-based delivery, but operates at far greater scale across multiple states.
• Arkansas Children's Hospital Outpatient Therapy: Hospital-affiliated pediatric outpatient therapy program offering SLP, OT, and PT across Arkansas; comparable service offering and pediatric patient base, but operates at significantly greater scale within the same geographic market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/BeyondSpeechClinic
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/beyond-speech-learning-center

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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