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The Learning Zone at Real Life Colorado is the only program of its kind in Colorado, focusing on teaching K-8 students with complex communication needs to communicate and participate using Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices. TLZ is entering its third year and working to expand our program!
"We enrolled our son at The Learning Zone because it would be the first opportunity where all the students would have talking devices. It would give our son the chance to experience friendship with kids that communicate just like him!"
"Learning Zone meets kids where they are providing relevant and engaging content. Teachers are able to spend time with each student equally and the peer relationships are very hard to find elsewhere - this is what makes RLC so unique. It is so amazing for [my son] to be around so many other children who also use speech devices and teachers who already know how to deal with the behaviors of these unique students."
"Since starting at Learning Zone I have seen my daughter attempt to use her voice much more! Learning how to use her words on the talker has given her confidence to vocalize more often."
Real Life Colorado educates, empowers, and connects school aged learners who are non-speaking or limitedly verbal to the resources they need to actualize a “real life” through total immersion in an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) environment.
The Learning Zone at Real Life Colorado provides a small classroom learning environment, with specialized literacy, writing, math and communication instruction. The program has the ability to shift and adapt to the specific needs of each unique child providing an individualized learning environment which was previously unachievable for these students in their previous school settings. Our staff are highly proficient in utilizing and teaching with AAC to provide best practice instruction to our unique communicators. We include extracurriculars such as science, STEM, art, and current events. This very special population of students struggled to succeed in prior settings. Per parent reports these students are thriving for the first time in their school careers. At RLC we seek to meet the children where they are and provide them with relevant and engaging content. Due to the efficiency of instruction, class times are shorter, and students are taught in small groups, which enables them to maintain focus and stamina throughout each core rotation. Our smaller classroom size means that teachers can equally spend time with each student.
Organization name
The Learning Zone at Real Life Colorado
other names
RLC
2019
Tax id (EIN)
84-3645172
Category
Education, Human Services
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
4000 S WadsworthJefferson County, CO, US