Thank you for your interest in the Child Learning Center (CLC), an inclusive early childhood learning toddler and preschool classroom. We have been serving the Boulder community for over 50 years! We are proud of our award-winning inclusive classroom environment and our loving and highly educated early childhood team. The CLC was awarded the Dan B. Davidson Award in 2018 by the Developmental Disabilities Council, which recognizes individuals and organizations that have demonstrated visionary practices (see introduction to the award).
This program is a learning platform for Speech and Language graduate students to learn best practices for supporting the whole child during the most important years.
Approach to Learning
The CLC welcomes ALL children, including children with needs and typically developing children. We use the Storybook Journey curriculum, a child-centered and play-based apporach that responds to each child’s interests, strengths, and areas for development. Our highly qualified team supports all areas of development: communication and early literacy, social-emotional, gross and fine motor, & cognition and pre-academic skills. We follow family priorities and our families are highly involved. Our team implements evidence based supportive classroom practices.
Unique Features
- Low teacher-student ratio
- Notes sent home to families every other week
- Portfolio of development created each semester for every child
- Emphasis on family involvement
- Healthy snack provided
- Large outdoor natural space and newly built playground
Location: Speech, Language, and Hearing Clinic (SLHC)
University of Colorado
2501 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder, CO 80309-0409
For more information on fees please contact Julie Breidenstein or call 303-492-5375.
Additionally, feel free to visit and 'like' our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CLCSLHC/.
You will not find a better preschool experience for your child than what they'll get at the CLC. We are in our third year there, and I am confident that my children will go into kindergarten socially, emotionally, and academically ready. I wish they could teach the kinds of interpersonal skills that the kids learn here at every preschool. I am grateful for the compassion and patience that are modelled and encouraged towards peers that struggle with social interactions. I have a son with special needs, and while I wish I'd known about the CLC when he was a preschooler, I am grateful I've given this experience to his younger brother and sister so that they could have exposure to peers of all abilities. I have been consistently impressed with every clinician who has worked with my children, and I cannot say enough good things about the teacher-mentors. Lest my glowing review appear to be suspiciously positive, I will give one critique - the parking situation has, at times, been frustrating. But that is honestly the only negative I've encountered in over two years with the CLC. I will miss it terribly when my kids "graduate" in April, and I will always be grateful for the gifts they have been given there. This place is a hidden gem. You will find nothing else like it in the Boulder area. Thank you, CU, for providing this opportunity for families of special needs and neurotypical kids alike. And thank you, Teacher LJ, for your tireless work and endless love for our kids - you're making the world a better place, ten preschoolers at a time!