The Child Learning Center at the University of Colorado Boulder
The Child Learning Center is an inclusive early childhood learning setting at the Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences Department at CU Boulder. The Child Learning Center, affectionately known as the CLC, has been a resource for our community for over forty years, providing intervention services for children with needs along with their typical peers in a play-based educational setting. There are several CLC programs that are applicable listed below.
PAL Assessment
Early Circles
CLC Toddler Group & CLC Preschool
Partners closely with families to address family priorities for their children and share strategies to support child development. Graduate clinicians, supervised by a certified speech-language pathologist, provide support for communication development. They have an early childhood special educator as the preschool teacher and an occupational therapist consult for both Toddler Group and Preschool. Tuition is comparable to other early childhood programs and as a RiteCare Site many families of children with needs receive partial scholarships from the Scottish Rite Foundation.
For information about other services at the Speech, Language, Hearing Center, their website is: http://slhs.colorado.edu/clinical-services/
The Child Learning Center is an inclusive early childhood learning setting at the Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences Department at CU Boulder. The Child Learning Center, affectionately known as the CLC, has been a resource for our community for over forty years, providing intervention services for children with needs along with their typical peers in a play-based educational setting. There are several CLC programs that are applicable listed below.
PAL Assessment
- The Pathways to Assessment of Learning (PAL) is a play-based assessment for young children that partners with the family to identify a child's strengths and describe development in the areas of cognition and play, speech and language, sensory and movement, and social and emotional development and to address the family's questions and concerns.
- The team, consisting of a family resource coordinator, an education specialist, an occupational therapist, and a speech-language pathologist, identifies next steps that the child will likely be making and shares strategies to support that development. An extensive report with these next steps and strategies is provided to the family.
- For more information about the PAL Assessment, please contact Barb Roscoe Barbara.roscoe@colorado.edu
Early Circles
- Early Circles is a class specifically for families with children with Down Syndrome.
- It fosters relationships between families and provides information about childhood speech development, specific to children with Down Syndrome, and how we as parents and families can support speech development in our children, as well as anything else the families want to know about.
- For information about Early Circles, please contact Amy Thrasher at amy.thrasher@colorado.edu
CLC Toddler Group & CLC Preschool
Partners closely with families to address family priorities for their children and share strategies to support child development. Graduate clinicians, supervised by a certified speech-language pathologist, provide support for communication development. They have an early childhood special educator as the preschool teacher and an occupational therapist consult for both Toddler Group and Preschool. Tuition is comparable to other early childhood programs and as a RiteCare Site many families of children with needs receive partial scholarships from the Scottish Rite Foundation.
- Toddler Group meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 to 11 for children ages 18 months to 3 years
- Preschool meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8:45 to 12:00
- For information on the Child Learning Center Toddler or Preschool groups, please contact LJ Werner, CLC Director and Preschool Teacher at lj.werner@colorado.edu or 303-492-3039
For information about other services at the Speech, Language, Hearing Center, their website is: http://slhs.colorado.edu/clinical-services/
