Summer camps for special needs children are organized in order to discover new skills and to socialize. Therefore opting for the summer camp that suits your child’s need according to his mental of physical condition is very important.
Though there could be a variety of summer camps in general but special summer camps could be categorized according to the required skills to be taught to the child. The requirement may differ according to the physical disability or mental disability of the child.
I’ve been with children of special needs. My one objective used to be “to offer best summer possible to our children, therefore I’d to gather up all sources to handle individual cases”. Like repeating phrases very often is called echolalia and this is one common thing with autistic children, for such cases I’d to learn how to divert attention. Autistic children display their obsessions differently. To me organizing camp for special needs children was always a challenge and every time I learnt something new in order to realize what a child is interested in and how to bring him/her in mainstream.
Summer camps could be categorized in many ways. Summer camps for normal children, summer camps for special needs children and sometimes integrated summer camps (normal and special children to enable them to interact with each other.)
Sometimes summer camps are held for only specific disease/ disability such as summer camps for diabetic children. The advantage of such a camp is one child relate well with a fellow disable child. In these camps child feel emotionally strong by finding others with similar difficulties. They don’t remain in isolation anymore.
Sometimes summer camps are restricted to certain age group in order to participate in various activities and socialize.
Summer camps can be held just for a day and there are some that continue for days. Some of the camps offer transport facilities to the place where they are conducted.Though there are many summer camp organizers available and you can reach to them over internet but in order to find suitable one for your child; know your child then know more about a particular camp and people working in it if they are trained enough to handle your kid. Sometimes special needs children find summer camps more frustrating. One most important thing is to know if summer camp is backed by good medical facilities to treat your child in emergency. Therefore it is important to convey everything to the summer camp people about your child like his/her likes and dislikes, behavioral pattern etc.
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