Bal Swan Children’s Center is a preschool that blends, in an inclusive environment, children with challenges and typical children. Our philosophy is to celebrate the uniqueness of every child by focusing on their strengths and building upon their successes.

Description:
The Bal Swan Children’s Center is a preschool that provides a welcoming environment for children with disabilities, as well as typical children from Metro Denver’s northern suburbs and other Front Range communities. Building on each child’s strengths and successes, the Center provides early intervention therapies and education services for children with disabilities from infancy through six years of age. Approximately 40 percent of our student population has a wide variety of disabilities and 60 percent are typical preschoolers.

History:
Founded in 1963, the Center was the first of its type in Colorado and twice chosen by the Colorado Department of Education for pilot projects to study educational programs for children with disabilities. The Center set the benchmark by which all other fully inclusive preschools are measured throughout the state.

Throughout the year all of the students attending Bal Swan Children's Center are able to use the warm-water therapy pool during class time. Our addition, built in 2005 has allowed us to expand our services. We now have four new classrooms, full day and half day preschool programming, a multipurpose room and a state-of-the-art physical, occupational and speech therapy room. Our school psychologist provides counseling services to students, parents and staff at no cost. Class size remains small and the student to staff ratio is low. In February the school took part in an accreditation program and we are thrilled to report that we received a 4-out-of-4 star quality rating, from Qualistar. Out of thousands of child care centers state-wide, we are one of a dozen that can boast such high reviews from Qualistar.

Contact person: Brian Conly, Executive Director, (email)
Office fax number: (303) 466-1224

Address:

1145 E. 13th Ave. Broomfield, CO 80020 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.balswan.org