summer camp

[Guest guest]

Our local Y MCA (Medford NJ) has a summer camp program which also runs during

holidays. They have a few high functioning special needs kids there. My son

(AS) went for a day and loved it (BTW he liked the food too). They said they

had no problems with him. He'll go two more days next week along with my DD. I

was also told to look into some of the " religious " camps. Many cost more but

can handle HFA ect. I hope this helps.

TTFN,

[Guest guest]

I missed to original question for this, but wanted to let you know that Jim

attended a week long sleepover camp especially for autistic children last

summer near Indianapolis, IN. It was started by a mom of a boy(16) with

Asperger's so she knows what she's doing. The web addy is:

http://www.campawareness.com/.

Typical Jim: I took him to visit and look around the week before. Sue

showed us around herself and everywhere we went, Jim said, " Looks like fun.

It's ok and I'M NOT COMING " ! About the 4th time this happened, she turned

to me and said, " See, he'll do fine. " At the end, he said, " Yep. It was

fun. I'm glad I came and I NOT coming back " . We'll see.

I think that if you have waiver services, camp can be covered under respite

care.

Parents are also welcome to come along, visit, and/or volunteer to help. I

stayed during the day to help fix food for the ones on special diets as Jim

is on Feingold and there were a couple GF/CF. I had fun too!

Feel free to post or e-mail me if anyone wants more info. We had a great

time.

Kathy H in IN

Jim, (13) AS & ADHD

( ) Re: summer camp

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> Our local Y MCA (Medford NJ) has a summer camp program which also runs

during holidays. They have a few high functioning special needs kids there.

My son (AS) went for a day and loved it (BTW he liked the food too). They

said they had no problems with him. He'll go two more days next week along

with my DD. I was also told to look into some of the " religious " camps.

Many cost more but can handle HFA ect. I hope this helps.

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> TTFN,

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[Guest guest]

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I guess this is not an answer. I intended to send Conner to

overnight camp this summer as well. His little sister has been twice

already and he feels left out. I found a camp I liked 20 miles from

home, we even went there to " check it out " . However, his behavior

was so anti-social, becoming more agressive, and lots of meltdowns

since the Spring. We both decided overnight camp would be there next

summer too. It's kind of funny ,last week he was on an inpatient

psych unit, I considered that his overnight camp for Summer 2006. He

got to do " cool " stuff, and did not meltdown up there for the staff.

However yesterday and today I've got some " incrimating videos " of his

less than desirable behaviors. I plan on sending a copy to the

inpatient pdoc for her review.

Sorry , I got off topic. I hope Corey does well. I know I had

the " anti-social,group activities,not fitting in " concerns too. I do

not suppose a call to the camp director would hurt to check on his

progress. Some camp directors might consider that " wimpy and over-

protective mom stuff " , but with our kids and their special needs WHO

CARES what other people think anyway. We've learned that with public

meltdowns- when the rest of the world knows and then proceeds to

sometimes verbalize their opinions and answers. Let us know how he's

doing, I'll keep you and him in my thoughts.

Kim

[Guest guest]

Hi all!Wanted to let you all know that we have one more spot in the Autism Buddy Day Camp, running in July on T, W, and Th mornings. While our initial brochure cited children ages 3-5 as the target group, all of the signed up participants are 5-1/2 to 6 years old - with a variety of ASD diagnoses, including Asperger disorder. Registration deadline is 6/13/08.Nevada www.kidslinkohio.com