DISCOVER KISHAMI
Colorado Springs school for autistic and special needs children, grades Pre-K through High School. We also provide bridging integrated courses to help your child succeed beyond the classroom. Enroll your child today!
At Kishami Academy, LLC. Your safety is the most important thing. Our school has students from every district and we know that weather varies throughout the neighborhoods.
Each day with inclement weather you will get a Road Report from the head teacher letting you know what the roads and driving conditions were like within two miles of the school. Your responsibility is to check FlashAlerts for school closures, analyze your own neighborhood’s driving conditions, and let the school know whether your student will be attending or staying home.
Snow Days are when more than half of the students stay home. These days, at school, are primarily independent work with some personalized tutoring.
What Kishami Can Do
Kishami Academy, LLC. is for students with autism that are being held back from their potential by current school practices.
Please note that we are not equipped to provide one-on-one service, and our location is not conducive to dealing with runners.
The application process includes three things.
- Email to ask any questions you have AFTER reading through the entire website.
- Email to ask questions and arrange for a visit to the school and interview with the teachers. This helps the student, parent/s, and teachers understand if Kishami Academy, LLC will be a good fit.
- Your may either collect enrollment packet from the school or print out the Enrollment Contract, Enrollment Form, Tuition Agreement, and Student Handbook from the Parent page to fill out and return to the school in person.
Kishami Academy is currently accepting enrollment applications.
Interested in helping out?
If you are a college students, National Honor Society high school students, retired teacher, or have a disability with skills they would like to share, we want to hear from you!
Look What We've Been Doing
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There’s always something amazing happening at Kishami Academy, LLC.
Our educational programs empower your child to learn in a flexible environment.
Upon enrollment, your child will be given an intake assessment and a customized curriculum to help challenge your child to achieve success.
News & Events
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Kishami Academy’s Philosophy for Teaching & Learning
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At Kishami Academy, LLC, we believe that every child should have every opportunity at achieving success in life, at home, and beyond, regardless of disability or need.
We are diverse, welcoming, accepting and passionate about being the best we can be. Join us to make your child’s education experience enriching and unforgettable.
FAQs Kishami
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Each 45 minute block is broken up into 20 minutes of lessons separated by a minute active break to help the body and brain focus and organize information.
Each block is separated by a 15 minute freetime break to allow the student tochange pace, get some energy out, play, work out, or work on personal projects which allows the brain to sort and store information.
Technology is limited. Students must earn technology sticks (worth 10 minutes of free play) by working out for 10 minutes (not during PE). Then playing is limited to 1-2 tech sticks per day and blue light glasses are required.
Our students are smarter than the IEP’s, teachers, and special education departments think they are.
Our students have interests and dreams that have been destroyed in public school: it often takes 6 months for a student who has been in public school to begin to erase the negative “I can’t” and “I’m too stupid” mindset that has been drilled into them. After this time period we begin to see students willing to ask questions and explore what their future could be (have they been told they will never be able to work and yet they want to be a carpenter or astrophysicist?
We are willing to help them fill in gaps and work toward dreams, then as their abilities are more firm figure out plausible dreams that they can attain).
Our students are independent and small group learners and suffer in larger classrooms.
Our students can keep themselves entertained: because we have quite a bit of independent work and one-on-one academic work, students need to be able to work on their assignments independently.
Our students can follow rules: we cannot work with students who are runners or overly violent when asked to rejoin the class.
Our students do not need any one on one care and can take care of personal issues (going to the bathroom, blowing their noses, washing their hands, eating) on their own.
Our students are taught to appreciate who they are and to consider their future in their actions, beliefs, and stims.
Our students work on social skills, life skills, functional stims, emotional management, how toget along in the outside world, how to work with others, how to self-advocate, and more.
Our largest focus is academics because our students are capable.
Will we ever be accredited? I am not sure.
What can we do instead? Kishami Academy helps students who are ready to pass their G.E.D. or college placement exams, then will help with homework if they choose to attend college or a credentialing course.
The first step is always talking with the student (if they are open to discussion), and helping them make their own personal choices toward their own future. We work with the student until they choose not to work with us, then if their behavior or lack of advancement academically begins to affect other students, we must make the harder decision, which results in a parent-teacher-student conference with concerns and a deadline for change.
Kishami Academy is intended for growth and academic movement toward a better future. Weare not intended for a daycare program for students who are capable of meeting our expectations.
Contact Us
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For any questions regarding new student interest ONLY, submit the following form (for all other questions, please use the GENERAL form):
For any general questions, comments, volunteers, college students, teacher inquiries, questions on autism and resources, etc, please fill out the following form:
We Proudly Support
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Thank you for your support!
Your Help Can Make a Difference
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We are very grateful for your continuous generosity and support in providing a specialized and much-needed education for the children in our community. With your help, we are able to broaden our reach and expand our endeavors to fill the gaps that give our students every chance at a successful and bright future.
Every dollar donated to Kishami Academy goes a long way and helps to provide equipment, technology, supplies, furniture and so much more.