The Learning Zone
Real Life Colorado proudly presents the Learning Zone, a fully immersive AAC K-8 CDE Facility School, providing research based academic instruction to students with complex communication needs (CCN) and/or intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). We teach our students the skills they need to engage in the world through student-centered instruction in the areas of academics, social communication, self-determination, and independent living.
The Optimal Learning Environment for Complex Communicators who use AAC
The Learning Zone is a full time academic program that delivers customized curriculum and specialized support by fully integrating AAC into every aspect of their day, empowering students to reach their maximum academic potential.
This immersive AAC experience includes individualized instruction in literacy, communication, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) delivered through engaging lessons developed by a team of highly adept teachers and special service professionals. Each student receives the support they need to promote independence and full engagement in their education and community.
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• The Learning Zone is located in a wing of the Havern School in Littleton, CO.
• The program is an approved Facility School, accepting students from multiple Denver Metropolitan Public School Districts grades K-8.
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• The 2023-2024 school year runs August through May
• Monday - Thursday 8:00am - 3:00pm and Friday 8:00am to 12:30pm.
• A 6-week summer program will run June 12 - July 28. No school will be held the week of the 4th of July.
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Our overall student to teacher ratio is 2:1.
We match students into groups based on chronological age and academic & social appropriateness.
Students will be in whole group, large group, and small group rotations throughout their days.
Typically, groups maintain the following ratios:
• Large Group Work - 5, 4, or 3 students to 2 or 1 adults
• Small Group Work - 3 or 2 students to 2 or 1 adults
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• Reading: 5 hours weekly
• Social Studies: 3.5 hours weekly
• Writing: 2.5 hours weekly
• Phonics: 2.5 hours weekly
• Math: 2.5 hours weekly
• Science: 2 hours weekly
• Vocabulary: 2 hours weekly
• Self-Directed Reading: 2 hours weekly
• Life Skills: 2 hours weekly
• Structured Play: 2 hours weekly
• Enrichment/Specials: 4 hours weekly
Summer AAC Immersion @ LZ -(SAIL)
Sail on through the summer with RLC! Join us for a fun and educational summer of programming developed specifically for a community of students using speech generating devices.
“We enrolled our son at The Learning Zone because it would be the first opportunity in his life 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! He’ll also have the chance to increase his reading and writing skills, which is something he very much wants to do.” - Learning Zone Parent