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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just throwing this out there.  There’s not a location around here so it only works if you have summer flexibility

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4788789/#:~:text=The%20summer%20treatment%20program%20(STP,occurs%20throughout%20the%20summer%20months.

There are a number of different locations:
Cleveland
Cincinnati 
Kansas City
Florida —I think it’s Miami

There are others but I don’t remember them off the top of my head.

https://pages.clevelandclinic.org/06-0321-adhdsummercamp_index.html

https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/service/c/adhd/summer-treatment-program
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My adhd anxious kid did STP in Boston and it was the single worst experience of their life.

These programs sound fabulous on paper and I did extensive research ahead of time talking to the folks running many of the programs. Here’s the deep systemic problem with STP : they have no idea how to handle anxiety. Most adhd kids also have anxiety. Or can be autistic or can have sensory issues. It’s rare to find a kid with pure adhd and nothing else.

The constant calling of infractions and seamless endless feedback to the kids ( you should see what a basic soccer game looks like in STP -it’s shocking ) is nothing but triggering for an anxious kid. As well my kid witnessed traumatic therapeutic holds by inexperienced counselors and came home with significantly lowered self esteem. The other issue with the program was that they are expensive and many need enrollment. So they take most  applicants and in our case our kid had zero kids their age in the cohort. Had we known this could be an issue we never would have signed up. DC showed up and was placed in a group with all kids that were 1-2 yrs younger.

The parent training was excellent. And to their credit they work hard to train the counselors.

STP is theoretically interesting and in practice traumatizing for a large group of adhd kids that do not have pure adhd but instead have ancillary issues ( sensory, anxiety, learning ) that can be profoundly escalated by the end of the program.

Don’t take the bait. It was a huge mistake for us and left our relatively happy kid with a prevailing sense that they needed to be fixed.

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