PLUK News feed

Outpatient Program Helps Youths with Cerebral Palsy, Brain Injuries

Link: Program

Under a sultry summer sun, a miniature golf course can test anyone's patience, but for the children who played at ParTee Golf in Perry Hall yesterday, sinking a putt marked a particular challenge. Some of them maneuvered walkers around the bridges and fountains of the course; others rolled along the greens in motorized wheelchairs. Some of the children, who are taking part in a program at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, were born with cerebral palsy, and others had suffered head injuries in accidents.

Easter Seals: Selecting an Accessible Camp

Link: Easter Seals

Parents may have questions and concerns about sending a child to camp for the first time, particularly a child with special needs. Will my child be able to handle being away from home? How can my child possibly participate in activities like white water rafting and tree climbing with his disability? Are these activities really safe? Is the camp staff really qualified to provide my child with the care he needs?

DetNews.com: Camp gives special kids respite from everyday life

Link: Detroit News

About six years ago, members of the board of the Michigan League for Crippled Children went to a public relations agency in Detroit -- Lovio George Inc.-- in  search of marketing for kids with special needs.

Since its inception in 1928, Camp Grace Bentley, located just north of Port Huron on the shore of Lake Huron has been a dream come true for parents and kids with a range of physical and mental challenges.

For nine magical days in four sessions beginning in late June and running through mid-August, kids get to feel no different from anybody else -- they get to be themselves -- and parents get a much needed respite.

washingtonpost.com: Young Campers Sail Against the Wind

Link: washingtonpost.com
Tim Hodge's long red hair blows away from his freckled face as he works the sail on a 14-foot boat on the St. Mary's River. His eyes gaze intently up at the sail while fellow sailor Tobin Cooper steers.
It's not the kind of focus one would expect from a 13-year-old with an attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

BostonHerald.com: Happy campers: Kids strive, thrive in Shriver program

Link: BostonHerald.com
Today Daniel Boggie, 12, is just a camper, but his new friends insist he should be a mayor.
“Mostly all the campers are my friends. I’m nice so everyone just loves me. They say that I should be a mayor,” said a beaming Daniel, of West Roxbury, who just completed his first summer at Camp Shriver at UMass-Boston.
The innovative camp, founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver in 1962, integrates young campers with intellectual disabilities and kids without such learning needs.

When the Child with Special Needs Goes Off to Summer Camp

Link: Summer Camp

Camping can be a positive, constructive and enjoyable experience for kids with learning problems. They can make new friends in a recreational setting unencumbered by their daily academic challenges. They get a fresh start…away from their classmates who may view them as "different" or "strange". But the child's departure for camp also proves you and your family a bit of respite. The child with special needs should not be viewed as a "burden" for a family. But, candidly, he may occupy a disproportionate amount of the parents' time, energy and resources.

Ned Hallowell Summer Enrichment Camp 2007

Link: http://leelanau.org/
The Leelanau School is the experience-based, five-senses learning community where students in grades 9 through 12 live and discover together on Lake Michigan’s wooded shore. We build on each student’s learning strengths, creatively using hands-on projects and our dramatic natural setting to help students gain a fresh new sense of independence, engagement, and capability.

Montana Learning Center

Link: Excellent educational environment for all ages
The Montana Learning Center at Canyon Ferry Lake is the premier location for statewide mathematics and science education in Montana . In addition to our advocate programs for the environment, informal science and math, we offer a host of intensive on-site camp and real life experiences in science and mathematics. Come learn with us - make some life-long friends who will help us make Montana a better place for the future generations!

SAF/DPHHS Accepting Applications for Foster Youth College Prep Camp

(HELENA) Montana foster care youth are invited to apply for available slots at the “A Step Ahead” college preparatory camp to be hosted July 10-12 at Carroll College in Helena.

Dimensions Kids Camp

Established in 2002, Dimensions Achievements in Therapy offers comprehensive diagnostic services and treatment for individuals with communication challenges, oral-motor dysfunction and feeding disorders. The day camp is run by licensed occupational, speech and physical therapists in collaboration with teachers specializing in pediatrics, and is accredited by the American Camping Association.

Dimensions Kids Camp provides its campers with a distinctive format that is designed to promote creativity, enhance socialization and language, encourage cognitive skill development, improve motor and perceptual skill development, and to promote self-esteem. All campers participate in a variety of activities including horse-assisted activities, aquatics, arts and crafts, cooking, music therapy, interactive sports, and weekly field trips.

To learn more about this program, please contact:
Dimensions Achievements in Therapy
Aventura Office
20704 West Dixie Highway
Aventura, Florida 33180
Main Office: 305.933.5887
Fax: 305.933.8991
http://www.dimensionstherapy.com/camp.html