LifeSkills Academy of Orlando "Art For Autism" Benefit

LifeSkills Academy of Orlando invites you to Art for Autism on Saturday, May 5, 2012 from 7pm - 10pm. This benefit will feature original student artwork and original artwork created by local artists, as well as a silent auction, wine & appetizers.

Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. RSVP - for more information, contact Wendy Blair at LifeSkills Academy by phone (407-388-1808) or email wendy.blair@lifeskillscfl.com

LifeSkills Academy of Orlando 2012 Summer Camp

Camp at LifeSkills Academy is a multi-sensory based camp that provides occupational and speech therapy, art, academic remediation, social skills training and play based activities. Our summer enrichment camp will be a motivating and rewarding experience for your child wrapped up in fun activities that will develop and improve your child's sensory, academic and social skills.

We offer 3 sessions of camp to students Pre-k (4) - 6th grade: June 11-August 3, June 11-July 6, and July 9-August 3. Camp hours are 9:00am-2:00pm with after camp care available.

Click here for more information and to download registration forms. You may also call 407-388-1808 to register or for additional information.

LifeSkills Academy of Orlando Selects Fast ForWord®

Software From Scientific Learning to Help Students Accelerate Learning

Winter Springs, FL - Jan. 12, 2012 - This month, students at LifeSkills Academy of Orlando, a non-profit private K-8 school in Winter Springs, Florida, will experience first-hand how cutting-edge technology and neuroscience are transforming education - and helping students become successful lifelong learners. Taking an innovative approach to classroom instruction, LifeSkills Academy will implement an educational software program called Fast ForWord® to help students exercise their brains, build brain fitness, and increase their capacity to learn.

Developed by Scientific Learning Corp. (NASDAQ:SCIL), the Fast ForWord family of educational software products accelerates learning for students across a wide spectrum of ages and abilities by applying proven research on how the brain learns. It helps students rapidly improve reading and learning ability by strengthening memory, attention, processing rate, and sequencing skills. By building brain fitness in these areas, learners can realize achievement gains of up to two years in as little as three months and maintain an accelerated rate of learning even after the programs end.

LifeSkills Academy purchased the Fast ForWord software earlier this month and plans to roll it out to students the week of January 17th. LifeSkills Academy is a sensory-based school that uses occupational therapy and speech/language therapy to support the academic and social needs of students with sensory integration, auditory processing, and communicative disorders.

"LifeSkills Academy is centered on an individualized curriculum that focuses on academic excellence, sensory integration and language development. Because we're a sensory-based school, we firmly believe in the plasticity of the brain - the brain's ability to change itself in response to new experiences," said Wendy Blair, director of LifeSkills Academy. "Scientific Learning has scientifically-based research that shows how the Fast ForWord program works to change the brain. Our goal with the Fast ForWord program is to help students improve their language and reading ability to help them reach their full potential. We're very excited to begin using the program."

About LifeSkills Academy of Orlando

LifeSkills Academy of Orlando is a 501(3)c non-profit private, McKay funded school located in Winter Springs, Florida. The mission of the school is to offer first rate academics in a unique and flexible environment which also includes onsite and individualized occupational and speech therapy. The staff works in a collaborative atmosphere to create a safe environment for learning and change. Through this collaboration, LifeSkills Academy of Orlando is able to facilitate the growth and improvement of each child's educational, as well as emotional, physical and social needs.

LifeSkills Academy of Orlando is a sensory based school that uses occupational therapy and speech/language therapy to support and enhance the academic and social needs of our students. Students who attend LifeSkills Academy of Orlando have diagnoses such as Sensory Processing Disorder, High Functioning Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, PDD, and other learning disabilities. Our therapeutic classrooms were created to fill the unique needs of the children. We recognize that the children need frequent breaks, small group and one-on-one instruction, small class sizes and the opportunity to move around which we allow for within the classroom environment.

Our staff consists of teachers, speech language-pathologists, occupational therapists and classroom aides. The combination of education, counseling, therapeutic training and professional expertise in teaching and treating children with Sensory Processing Disorder, Auditory Processing Disorder, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, and other learning and communicative disorders makes us a unique learning environment in Central Florida. We work in partnership with our parents and with one another to ensure each student is able to realize success within a small classroom setting.

In conjunction with small group and one-on-one academic lessons, each child receives 3 individual 30 minute therapy sessions per week as well. Sessions can include Speech/Language and Occupational Therapy, and each child receives therapy based on his/her individual need.