Our Mission is "To provide an adult learning environment supported with alternative and augmentative communication systems to prepare and involve students with complex learning needs in their transition to the next stage of their young adult life:"
The college is a wonderful place to learn and offers day and residential courses to students aged between 19 and 25 years with a broad range of communication difficulties including hearing impairment or limited or no oral language communication and severe/complex learning difficulties. The College at RSDCD is an independent specialist college with a North West regional and national role regulated by the Learning and Skills Council and inspected by OfSTED.
Specialist programmes and teaching support learners with dual sensory impairment and severe/ profound learning difficulties, learners whose primary need is autism and learners who 
are deaf or who have communication difficulties.
The college is recently refurbished and is designed to provide a positive learning environment. Specialist teaching facilities include a fully inclusive Karten CTEC centre; accessible life skills room, dark room, sensory room, quiet place and individual work rooms.
As a Net North West connected institution, the college benefits from resilient, high-speed connections to JANET and hence to the internet. This allows lots of students to go online or access resources at once. It also helps to improve quality when using technology such as web-cams and video phones.
Each teaching base is designed to effectively support group and individual work stations. The acoustic and visual environment has been designed to be comfortable for learners who experience hypo/hypersensitivity to sound and vision.
There are specialist facilities on campus including sports hall with climbing wall, an inclusive fitness suite, swimming pool, hydrotherapy pool, horticulture workshop, gamelan and dance studio. Learners also make great use of the local community and we have minibuses to support off-site learning.
A new wing is currently under construction and due for completion in September 2008. This will include an art stuio, multi media suite, vocational workshop and additional classrooms.