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Multi-Disciplinary Pediatric Care

Blue Bird Day’s mission is to champion children to reach their full potential by providing individualized therapeutic care.

Blue Bird Day (BBD) is not your average preschool or kindergarten program. In fact, It’s not a school at all! We are an intensive therapy clinic focused on providing family-centered services using a team approach. Our program has been updated and improved through the years to provide the best results for our families. We provide therapies for children with autism, sensory processing disorders, Down syndrome, genetic disorders, and developmental delays.

Therapies are provided within the clinic, at home, and in community settings. Children enrolled in the program receive daily services within small group rotations that simulate a preschool or kindergarten day; they may also receive individual therapy sessions. We work with our families to ensure they have all the services they need in a given week, and goals are created for each client and the family’s unique needs.

Our therapists work in teams to collaborate to meet the needs of our families through Blue Bird Day’s Therapeutic Rotations©. Blue Bird Day Therapy Rotations© complement each other to address all skills needed for meaningful participation in everyday life.

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What Our Clients Have to Say:

Enrolling in Blue Bird Day was one of the best decisions we have made for our daughter. She is in her second year in the preschool, and she is thriving
– which means our whole family is thriving, too. Our daughter has reached so many developmental milestones as a result of the innovative and holistic approach Blue Bird Day’s teachers and therapists utilize. The knowledge and expertise of the staff team is absolutely top-notch.  I am also so impressed with the level of personal attention and care our daughter receives from her preschool teacher, and have appreciated so much the time the teacher spends communicating and collaborating with me on her goals and progress. Our daughter talks about her teacher, therapists, and preschool friends constantly and can’t wait to go to school each day. Because of Blue Bird Day, she is finding her wings, and I, as the mother of a child with neurological differences, am finding my own right alongside her.

Keri L.

When I think of Blue Bird Day, I can’t help but feel at home and that the staff is an extension of our family. The staff members go out of their way to make the kids feel safe, welcomed, encouraged, and confident. In the time we have been there we have seen progress that can not be measured. I didn’t think we’d be where we are today and I don’t believe any other school compares to Blue Bird Day.  All the hard work by the staff has given our kids a second chance.

Blue Bird Day has helped our kids excel and gave us as parents the tools to help our kids reach their goals. From visual aids, to behavior charts, to a prize chart, the list goes on.  I might have been the biggest skeptic when it came to these things but when I saw how much it helped, I couldn’t help but reinforce it and it made the difference. I swear by them now. The kids look froward to going to school each and every day. I feel like they would stay there if they could. I feel we are very blessed to have found this place and that their first exposure to school has been filled with love and compassion.

Mike R.

We met Sarah Hirschman, my daughter’s OT from Blue Bird Day,  while my daughter was in Early Intervention for what was then deemed Emotional Regulation & SPD. Sarah was by far the most influential therapist we had met. She was also the first person I contacted when Drew got the official Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis in December 2014.

The moment we enrolled Drew at Blue Bird Day in February 2015, we noticed quasi immediate improvements on all fronts: better social ability, increased tolerance for the unknown,  less ritualistic rigidity, less lashing out against peers and significantly reduced tantrum violence and frequency. What we were particularly thrilled about was the level of excitement Drew manifested after her first day at Blue Bird Day and every morning thereafter when it was “time for school!” – something she usually was highly anxious about while attending our local catholic private school.  I could write for hours about Blue Bird Day, but what I hope to convey the most is how eternally grateful I am to have found true professionals who can handle and work with my daughter’s myriad of challenges. All the while, the team of amazing people who care, who love, who are incessantly dedicated, patient beyond understanding and ineffably compassionate with special children of all walks of life.

Take a random walk through the halls or be a passive fly on the wall as you walk to the bathroom before you pick up your child and you will inevitably be floored by the radiant energy and the palpable positive vibes that emanate from the staff and therapists that are assiduously at work with their patients. It’s remarkable!  We all know as moms of special needs kids what herculean tasks we need to surmount every day and we all know it’s a marathon, not a sprint. For me, Blue Bird Day has turned the impossible into real accomplishments and each small step my daughter learns here turns into an exponential feat of achievement. It’s like a contagious positive cycle that Drew is now addicted to, and so are we. We never saw this before and we know it is all thanks to Blue Bird Day and their amazingly dedicated team.  I thank my lucky stars every time I see my daughter walk in after her Blue Bird Day session with a proud smile on her face!

Stephanie H.

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WEST LOOP LOCATION

1233 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60607

WHEATON LOCATION – Now Open!

140 E Loop Rd, Wheaton, IL 60189

NORTHCENTER LOCATION

1921 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613

CONTACT INFORMATION

West Loop: 312-241-1204, Wheaton: 630-243-5850, Northcenter: 312-241-1789

info@bbdprogram.com

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