Special Needs Summer Camps (MD & DC)

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Kingsbury has a summer program that is offered to the community.

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Montgomery County is advertising their SN camps.

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Levine Music has a one week Music Therapy Camp and their Arlington, VA and downtown Silver Spring, MD campuses - http://www.levinemusic.org/education/areas-of-study/music-therapy

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I got a JCC family membership last year with the hopes of getting my now 1st grader into the 2018 inclusion summer camp. I submitted the camp application as soon as it opened for members having a child who never attended their camp. No luck! I was told the sessions are full. First priority goes to returning campers who are members, second priority goes to returning campers, then members having first time campers, finally it opens to everyone.

Send your child for 1 session this summer and next year you'll be able to get first priority.

How can you send your child to one session of a camp you are closed out of?

Are you closed out of the inclusion camp or the entire camp session for your childs age? My guess is you are closed out of the inclusion aspect but could still register and pay for the traditional camp. I'm not going to say it is the best thing for the child to send them there without support. The traditional camp will call and send your child home if they are having a hard time. And financially, it's not the best thing for a family to pay for a session of camp that they can't use because your child won't be successful without support. But it is a way to get your kid into priority registration for the following summer. You could also offer to provide your own shadow during during the traditional camp session.

Wow - hardcore.

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Anonymous wrote:Bumping this old thread b/c of the very helpful list of summer camps that may work for kids with SN. If anybody can chime in with experiences with these camps, or other suggestions, I would very much appreciate it! I'm looking for both theraputic camps and also regular camps that are inclusive for a 7 year old with significant speech issues.

A particular question about the Rockville JCC inclusion camp: Does this fill up super early such that there is no point in even thinking about it for summer 2018 now?

Yes, it fills up quickly. See if there is a waitlist? They also give priority registration to JCC members so at some point you get the hard sell to join.
We would if we had a dime to spare but since we don’t and we haven’t we end up feeling guilty about it if our kid gets into a camp session.

Yes, it fills up quickly. See if there is a waitlist? They also give priority registration to JCC members so at some point you get the hard sell to join.
We would if we had a dime to spare but since we don’t and we haven’t we end up feeling guilty about it if our kid gets into a camp session.

To get into this camp you also have to buy a membership so that you can do camp enrollment the very first day it opens. At one point I did a lot of calling to figure out the steps and the fees and eventually determined that it just wasn't worth the effort or extra money. Signing up for camp should not be a major undertaking.

It's not a major undertaking. Camp is designed to serve the needs of its members first and excess capacity is offered to the community. There is so much demand for the inclusion camp that after the member demand is satisfied, there is no excess capacity for the community.

Remember, inclusion camp does not cost any more than standard camp. There is not an additional fee for the shadow. But there is a cost. That cost has to be covered somehow. Membership dues help offset some of that cost. The dinner of champions raises a lot of money to offset the rest. If you don't want to be a supporting member, that's fine. But then you can't complain that you didn't get into inclusion camp because it fills up so quickly. Membership is open all. You don't have to be jewish to be a member and you get the use the of facilities all year.

Yes - all very interesting, but families with special needs children to raise often do not have any extra money to pay for a $1600 membership to the JCC.
It would be a lovely thing but many of us are deeply and irretrievably in debt and that is just not feasible. I don’t see how someone could run a program for SN families and not have any clue about that?
So - it’s only rich SN families that can participate then? That’s not a great policy.

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The membership you buy is a special camp membership--not the full blown one--or so I was told by camp staff.

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Anonymous wrote:Bumping this old thread b/c of the very helpful list of summer camps that may work for kids with SN. If anybody can chime in with experiences with these camps, or other suggestions, I would very much appreciate it! I'm looking for both theraputic camps and also regular camps that are inclusive for a 7 year old with significant speech issues.

A particular question about the Rockville JCC inclusion camp: Does this fill up super early such that there is no point in even thinking about it for summer 2018 now?

Yes, it fills up quickly. See if there is a waitlist? They also give priority registration to JCC members so at some point you get the hard sell to join.
We would if we had a dime to spare but since we don’t and we haven’t we end up feeling guilty about it if our kid gets into a camp session.

Yes, it fills up quickly. See if there is a waitlist? They also give priority registration to JCC members so at some point you get the hard sell to join.
We would if we had a dime to spare but since we don’t and we haven’t we end up feeling guilty about it if our kid gets into a camp session.

To get into this camp you also have to buy a membership so that you can do camp enrollment the very first day it opens. At one point I did a lot of calling to figure out the steps and the fees and eventually determined that it just wasn't worth the effort or extra money. Signing up for camp should not be a major undertaking.

It's not a major undertaking. Camp is designed to serve the needs of its members first and excess capacity is offered to the community. There is so much demand for the inclusion camp that after the member demand is satisfied, there is no excess capacity for the community.

Remember, inclusion camp does not cost any more than standard camp. There is not an additional fee for the shadow. But there is a cost. That cost has to be covered somehow. Membership dues help offset some of that cost. The dinner of champions raises a lot of money to offset the rest. If you don't want to be a supporting member, that's fine. But then you can't complain that you didn't get into inclusion camp because it fills up so quickly. Membership is open all. You don't have to be jewish to be a member and you get the use the of facilities all year.

Yes - all very interesting, but families with special needs children to raise often do not have any extra money to pay for a $1600 membership to the JCC.
It would be a lovely thing but many of us are deeply and irretrievably in debt and that is just not feasible. I don’t see how someone could run a program for SN families and not have any clue about that?
So - it’s only rich SN families that can participate then? That’s not a great policy.

I don’t think you can have it both ways. The 1:1 ratio has to be paid for somehow. They can either offer memberships and priority enrollment thus driving up membership or they could charge the SN families the extra money it costs for the 1:1 ratio. It’s not realistic to think that even though the SN camp doesn’t charge extra money, that it doesn’t cost more money. The membership also gets your family the use of the facilities—the gym, the pool, and lectures. Your family may not see the value in that, but the facility is there for the community. It would be a shame if memberships couldn’t sustain it and then there was no camp for anyone.

My SN child did JCC inclusion for 3 years. He moved onto sleepaway camp and I now pay 1.5x the cost of regular camp. The JCCGW model is pretty awesome.

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Anonymous wrote:There is also the DC DPR therapeutic camp -self-contained with aides - and the DPR locations where the do inclusion with assigned aides. We did it at Sherwood for the last couple of years and the placement Ian outside the DPR midnight rush sign up from February. Contact is Ms. Priscilla Jones.

Is this a educational /school skills camp or typical summer camp out doors /games /swimming but adaptive?? Is it a good fit for mild or moderate LD kids?

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In the process of looking up the camps on the list. Are there any camps for those of use that don't make 6 figures?? I can not afford $500- $1000- $1800 dollar a month half day camp!!! I think a saw a couple that were $500 for 2-4 hours of SPED camp that is still pusing it for us.. we could maybe swing a week or two.

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And are there any that have dyslexia tutoring plus standard kid day camp stuff? I'm wondering if we would be better off with the standard camp our kid went to last year and find a tutor. He had had a blast and loved the staff at the standard camp.

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Anonymous wrote:There is also the DC DPR therapeutic camp -self-contained with aides - and the DPR locations where the do inclusion with assigned aides. We did it at Sherwood for the last couple of years and the placement Ian outside the DPR midnight rush sign up from February. Contact is Ms. Priscilla Jones.

Is this a educational /school skills camp or typical summer camp out doors /games /swimming but adaptive?? Is it a good fit for mild or moderate LD kids?

It is not academic -- more like adaptive day camp with outdoor play, swimming, library visits, games, arts and crafts. It is an inclusive program, so they will accept typical kids, too (usually siblings of an SN kid who is also attending). There is a range of abilities. It works best if your NT kid is on the younger side of the age range, because then they are more "on level" with some of the older SN kids. My NT 5 year old had a decent time there last summer, but he was the oldest NT kid in our session.

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Anonymous wrote:And are there any that have dyslexia tutoring plus standard kid day camp stuff? I'm wondering if we would be better off with the standard camp our kid went to last year and find a tutor. He had had a blast and loved the staff at the standard camp.

You can do the math, but this might be a cheaper option and your child might have more fun this way.

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We’re looking late but 7 years old mid-level autistic twins needs camp for month of August. We live in Upper Marlboro PG county MD
Please Help

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Anonymous wrote:We’re looking late but 7 years old mid-level autistic twins needs camp for month of August. We live in Upper Marlboro PG county MD
Please Help

Friend you need to start your own new thread.