TRUST YOUR CHILD’S LEARNING TO THE EXPERIENCED PEDIATRIC EDUCATORS AND THERAPISTS OF HUMMINGBIRD PEDIATRIC THERAPIES!
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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!

Enrichment Classes

We have an exciting lineup of STEM based enrichment classes that will challenge your child's mind and creativity.

​ These classes are offered at various times throughout the year. Please call us at 630-560-0136 for more information.
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​ALL CLASSES ARE TAUGHT AT OUR NEW 5500SF PROFESSIONALLY DESIGNED CHILD THERAPY & ENRICHMENT CENTER IN WESTMONT!
Class
Week & Times
Description
ZUMBINI
​(6-36 months old)
Zumbini combines music, dance and educational tools for 45 minutes of bonding and fun! Class is fun, energetic, and full of contemporary music with world beats. Come join the fun!
PICASSO IN PAMPERS
​​(12-36 months old)
Created and taught by our incredible Evon, developmental therapist with nearly 20 years experience in Birth-3, children and their caregivers will have an opportunity to explore a variety of art and sensory materials designed to stimulate your child's imagination, play experience, and creativity. Together we will construct our "work of art" at each child's pace. They will utilize their whole body while exploring different colored paints and a variety of painting and artistic tools!
CREATING CONNECTIONS
​​(2-3 years old)
Evon is back at it with this incredible group class designed to help improve your child's ability to engage and play with peers. Activities will be focused on increasing opportunities to express emotions and feelings appropriately, learn rules and expectations, increase self-esteem, improve cooperation and conversational skills, increase attention and expand play interests!
FEEDING FUN
​​​(3-6 years old)
Do you have a picky eater? Is feeding time stressful? Do you spend time 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, taste and feel. By taking the fear out of foods, we find the children will experiment with them and eventually add them to their diets!  Private sessions are also available and may be covered by your BCBS PPO plan.  Call for any questions. 
BEE BOTS STEM EARLY CODING: CHILDREN LEARN EARLY CODING SKILLS!
​(4-7 years old)
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. This class will challenge your child's math, language and science problem solving skills all while having an absolute BLAST!
LITTLE ENGINEERS LEGO STEM CHALLENGE!
​​​(5-7 years old)
Does your kiddo love LEGOS or maybe just loves to build things? Led by Kathryn Williams, M. Ed, each week, your child will be presented with a new STEM challenge that they get to keep! Kiddos will learn how to apply theories central to SCIENCE, MATH  and ENGINEERING all while having a blast! Children will be empowered by putting their critical thinking skills to the test in each new task!
YOUNG ARTISTS ANIMATION & SHORT FILM CLASS
(All ages!)
This class is an invitation to let your child's imagination run wild by making various characters and creatures that exist in their dreams come to life! With their own cartoons and animations, the sky is the limit!​

Taught by Academy Award Nominated Animator Ed Newmann with help from a speech pathologist and occupational therapist (if needed for fine motor help), your child will write their own story, animate all aspects including background and characters, provide a voice-over and magically see it come to life as a short film on the big screen!  The class wraps up with a Movie Premier Night of their movies on the big screen complete with popcorn and snacks! Family and Friends welcome to the Premier!
HANDWRITING WITHOUT TEARS
(5-7 years old)
Who says handwriting can't be fun? This class will challenge your child all while having fun to work towards writing effectively and legibly. Kids love the activities and parents love seeing the progress they make!
SOCIAL GROUPS
(5 years old through high school)
Hummingbird offers social emotional language groups that target "playground politics" for ages 5 through high school.