TRUST YOUR CHILD’S LEARNING TO THE EXPERIENCED PEDIATRIC EDUCATORS AND THERAPISTS OF HUMMINGBIRD PEDIATRIC THERAPIES!
What is The Hummingbird Difference?
What is The Hummingbird Difference?
- Child-directed play based sessions in a nurturing and supportive state of the art professionally designed pediatric therapy and enrichment center
- Individualized and custom sessions & classes taught by masters and doctorate trained therapists and educators
- Our focus is to empower your child to become a critical thinker, a skill often times overlooked, but one that drives higher level learning
- Click here for more information on the importance of children learning critical thinking skills and “The Hummingbird Difference”
Our multi-disciplinary classes are all Hummingbird Originals that we created based on our years of experience working with children. They are incredibly fun, engaging and stimulating for our kiddos. See what other parents have to say about Hummingbird!
2017 Fall Enrichment Classes
ALL CLASSES ARE TAUGHT AT OUR NEW 5500SF PROFESSIONALLY DESIGNED CHILD THERAPY & ENRICHMENT CENTER IN WESTMONT!
Class
TUMMY TIME
(3-9 months old) |
Week & Times
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Description
At Hummingbird, we believe in Back To Sleep, Tummy To Play! Our littlest ones usually don't like being on their tummies, and we can understand...it's hard! This MOMMY/DADDY/NANNY & ME class is co-taught by both a physical and occupational therapist :) Miss Jamie, OT creates SUPER engaging sensory activities that will also help develop your child's vision development! Parents & Caretakers will leave this class with a TON of fun ideas on how to encourage and develop your child's head, neck, back, legs and arm strength which also prepares them for rolling over and sitting!
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Taught By & Cost
This Hummingbird Original class was designed and is taught by Marisa, our doctorate of physical therapy and Jamie, Master's in OT. These 2 fabulous therapists bring a level of energy and fun that both babies and Adults will enjoy :)
$295/6-hour long weekly classes Minimum 2 babies Maximum 6 babies |
WEEBLE WOBBLE EARLY WALKERS
(9-21 months old) |
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This Mommy/Daddy/Nanny and Me Class will get those little feet and legs moving! Music will be used to help stimulate movement because who doesn’t want to shake their bootie to some fun nursery songs!
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This Hummingbird Original class was designed and is taught by Marisa, our doctorate of physical therapy from the highly acclaimed DPT program at Marquette University. Children will be engaged in our 2 new professionally designed pediatric sensory-motor gyms
$295/6-hour long weekly classes Minimum 2 babies Maximum 6 babies |
TINY HANDS & TALKERS
(21-30 months old) |
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Looking to give your child's talking skills a boost? Studies have shown that learning simple sign language helps reduce frustration and creates a great bridge to expressive language. This SEMESTER LONG Hummingbird Original weekly class will teach both you and your child simple signs along with encouraging oral motor and speech imitation necessary for your child's talking to take off!
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Using a multi-disciplinary approach, including music, Miss Brenna, a master's trained speech therapist, will teach your child simple signs all while showing you how to encourage oral motor imitation, the first rung on the ladder to talking!
$495/10-hour long weekly classes Minimum 2 Children Maximum 6 Children |
FEEDING FUN!
(3 years old - 5 years old) |
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Do you have a picky eater? Is feeding time stressful? Do you feel like a short order cook making different meals for your child? Is eating out a nightmare? The good news is…Feeding Class works! The goal of this class is to turn eating into a fun activity. We explore how foods look, smell, feel and taste. By taking the fear out of the foods, we find the children will experiment with them and eventually add them to their diets. We have been helping picky eaters for over 20 years. Check out our website for testimonials!
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Using the SOS feeding approach as the basis of this class, Miss Jamie our OT with a strong background and years of experience with sensory integration delays, will turn feeding time into play time and will reduce the stress involved for mealtimes! For those kiddos that need the oral motor help from a speech therapist, we will provide that as well!
$495 for 8 weeks-45 minute sessions Minimum 2 Children Maximum 6 Children |
SOUNDS IN MOTION PHONICS FUN!
(4 years old - 6 years old) |
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Is your kiddo having a hard time grasping phonics...letters and their sounds? Or do you just want to give them a jump start on reading? Then this interactive SEMESTER LONG enrichment class if just what you are looking for! The SIM is an innovative program that makes learning sounds in such a fun visual way that it is easier for them to retain their learning! It helps children improve skills in: listening, phonemic awareness, articulation, discrimination of speech sounds, auditory processing, and vocabulary development. What's not to love about this class?
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Miss Heather, a masters trained speech pathologist who has consistently earned the trust of families through the years, has been teaching SIM to many of her private kiddos. She has seen tremendous results with the program and so has turned this class into another Hummingbird Original! You know active learning is going on when all you hear are giggles from kids as they are engaged in their play!
$495/10-hour long weekly classes Minimum 2 Children Maximum 6 Children |
BEE BOTS LANGUAGE & EARLY CODING / CRITICAL THINKING
(4 years old - 6 years old) |
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KIDS ARE BUZZING OVER BEE-BOTS! Award-winning Programmable Robots! Using a simple intuitive interface, students program the BeeBot to move forward, backward, turn and stop...all within themed challenges designed to engage a child’s higher level critical thinking skills. The children will learn sequential reasoning, spatial awareness, cooperative learning, motor planning and higher level thought processing for various language activities...as well as math and science concepts for estimation, learning coordinates and engineering! All while having a BLAST! BeeBots were first taught at Hummingbird this summer and they were a HUGE HIT!
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Maureen Denja, MSEd and licensed & certified speech language pathologists that focus on critical thinking. Maureen has spent her career enriching the lives of children including over 12 years at the Northwestern University Center For Talent & Development. With her undergraduate degree in psychology and masters in education, she brings a unique perspective to nurturing our youngest growing minds ;)
$495/6-2 hour weekly classes Minimum 5 Children Maximum 15 Children |
SCRATCH JR. CODING GROUP
(5 years old - 7 years old) |
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Coding is the new literacy...says SCRATCH JR! Young children can program their own interactive stories and games and along the process, learn how to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the iPad. We at Hummingbird see the importance of learning and utilizing technology, but we also know true learning is complemented by technology not replaced by it. Many aspects of this class will utilize both good old-fashioned learning and state of the art innovative technology.
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Maureen Denja, MSEd and a licensed & certified speech language pathologist who focuses on critical thinking skills. Maureen has spent her career enriching the lives of children including over 12 years at the Northwestern University Center For Talent & Development. With her undergraduate degree in psychology and masters in education, she brings a unique perspective to nurturing our youngest growing minds ;)
$495/6-2 hour weekly classes Minimum 5 Children Maximum 15 Children |
LITTLE ENGINEERS LEGO STEM CHALLENGE!
(5 years old - 7 years old) |
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Does your kiddo love LEGOS or maybe just loves to build things? Welcome to another Hummingbird Original Class...LEGO STEM CHALLENGE! Each week, your child will be presented with a new STEM challenge. Whether it be making a fidget spinner or a balloon operated car where we can test the theories of mechanics & physics, your child will engage his/her critical thinking skills at a level like no other! Instead of 'telling' them how to do the activity, they will be empowered to figure it out on their own with support by masters trained therapists and educators. Make a mistake where it doesn't turn out exactly how they wanted? No worries! Learning from our mistakes is the most effective way to learn!
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Taught by Kathryn Williams, a beloved local preschool teacher who has taught both elementary and preschool aged children, she earned her undergraduate degree in Math and her MEd in curriculum development. Kiddos in her class will learn how to apply theories central to SCIENCE, MATH and ENGINEERING all while having a blast! Your child will be able to keep each challenge they make!
$295/6-75min weekly classes Minimum 3 children Maximum 9 children |
JUNIOR ENGINEERS
(8 years old - 12 years old) |
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Junior Engineers LEGO STEM CHALLENGE is for boys and girls! Implementing the same teaching strategies as LITTLE ENGINEERS, children first analyze the model project, design and add their own personal touches and then execute the design all while engaging higher level cognitive and problem solving skills. This is a different way to approach teaching and reflects The Hummingbird Difference on how we teach children. For more information on The Hummingbird Difference, check out our website.
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Taught by Kathryn Williams, a beloved preschool teacher with her Master's in Math, kiddos in this class will learn how to apply theories central to SCIENCE, MATH and ENGINEERING all while having a blast! Your child will be able to keep each challenge they make!
$295/6-75min weekly classes Minimum 3 children Maximum 9 children |
YOUNG ARTISTS ANIMATION & SHORT FILM CLASS
Tapping Into The Artist In Every Child (8 years old - 12 years old) |
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Every child loves a blank canvas, a white piece of paper where they can color in their thoughts and feelings. It is an invitation to let their imagination run wild and to bring forth various characters and creatures that live in their dreams. When they can bring those characters and stories to life and make their own cartoons and animations, only the sky is the limit!!
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Co-taught by Ed Newmann, an academy award nominated illustrator & hands behind such iconic images such as Twix The Rabbit and a pediatric speech therapist, this class will tap into the artist that is bursting to come of your child! Each will write their own story with focus on sequencing, character dev, expansion of vocabulary & will then draw their story with help from Ed & an OT if needed. Their stories will be turned into an animated short film complete with your child providing the voice-over narration! Join us 2 weeks later for a red-carpet premier celebration where the whole family can come and enjoy watching all the short films!
$495 |
HANDWRITING WITHOUT TEARS
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Who says handwriting can't be fun?? BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Our HWT classes have been a hit summer after summer! Kids love the fun activities and parents love seeing the progress they make!
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This class has been specially designed by our famous pediatric OT Miss Jen! She challenges your child all while having fun. In this digital age, we are finding that is more and more important to know how to write effectively and legibly, yet there is a continuing lack of focus on its importance in many school programs.
$495 |