Meaningful Relationships - Executive Function Skills - Emotional Regulation - Social Skills - Self Esteem - Well Being

Campers with unique and special needs

Capital Speech and Language Therapy Winter Program is designed for children with special needs, ages 3-6 years old, to improve language and social skills.

Sioux City, IA

Camp High Hopes offer summer week-long and day camp, and weekend respite in the fall/spring.

Join us at constraint induced movement camp. A camp designed to improve the motor functioning of a child's affected side. Delivered through engaging and meaningful themed therapeutic activities. Led by an OT and OT students to ensure a 1:1 ratio.

Elgin, TX

Enjoy a fun camp experience on a working ranch in the countryside of Texas. Sure to be the highlight of your year, Ranch Camp offers campers loads of exciting activities with unique ranch experiences. This is a place where new experiences happen, memories are made, and relationships are built. Come horse around with us, we can't wait to show you the ropes of Ranch Camp!

We offer a unique adaptive therapeutic approach based on principles of Applied Behavior Analysis, focusing on the development of independent life skills, socialization, behavior modification and academic instruction to meet IEP goals, as well as any goals you personally may have for your child.

Camp designed for children with Special Needs and Learning Disabilities where they will work on academic and basic living skills. Our program is based on the Assessment for Functional Living Skills and covers many areas students need to lead the most independent adult life possible. We will offer many different educational activities, field trips, and community-based instruction opportunities.

Glenville, NY

Clover Patch welcomes physically and/or developmentally disabled campers ages five and older. The program provides families and caregivers a period of reprieve while at the same time providing campers with a challenging, educational and fun outdoor living experience in a fully accessible natural setting.

A 6 weeks summer day camp for children (4-20) with Special Needs. We are modeled after a traditional town day camp with Specials, trips off site, and swimming.

Lake Oswego, OR

​Camp Yakety Yak helps children with special needs grow socially and emotionally by improving their communication skills. Structured in a fun, day camp setting in Lake Oswego, Oregon, Camp Yakety Yak is staffed with knowledgeable professionals and caring volunteers to teach friendship skills to children and young adults, age 6-22. Siblings welcome!

Ahwahnee, California (Near Yosemite), CA

Located near Yosemite National Park in Ahwahnee, California, Camp Krem has served children and adults with disabilities since 1957. Offering three types of adventure programs Main, (traditional camp), Outdoor Adventure and several unique sessions of Travel Camping.

Lawrenceville, NJ

Camp Shriver is a day camp for individuals with intellectual disabilities where the campers will make new friends, enhance sport skills, learn new sports, attend educational sessions on health and wellness

Brandon, FL

Our camp is designed for children with all abilities in mind. We provide a safe, fun and highly supportive inclusive environment where your child can develop new skills, build friendships, and gain confidence alongside their typical peers in a structured camp setting.

Located on 52 acres in the Cleveland Metroparks Mill Stream Run Reservation in Strongsville, Camp Cheerful is Ohio's first barrier-free camp. Camp Cheerful offers residential co-ed sessions in a beautiful outdoor environment for children and adults ages 7 and older with special needs.

Rhinebeck, NY

A traditional summer camp experience for children with social, emotional, or learning challenges.

Wexford, PA

The Woodlands Foundation offers over-night summer camps, weekend retreats and additional after- school programs for individuals of all ages with disability and chronic illness. Participants have the opportunity to learn, have fun, and make friends! All of our programs are fully adaptive, accessible and take place on our campus with climate controlled facilities and a caring and trained staff.

Kennett Square, PA

Camp Dreamcatcher offers a variety of therapeutic, educational and recreational programs to HIV/AIDS impacted youth in a camp setting.

Easterseals Oregon's barrier-free summer camp for children and adults with disabilities and/or special needs provides a place where activities are designed to be inclusive. Campers discover new abilities, gain independence, make lifelong friendships, and build lasting memories. In addition, caregivers receive respite time to rejuvenate themselves. Our camp sessions are five-days and four-nights in July at Evans Creek Retreat.

YAI- Mainstreaming At Camp (MAC) - A program ran in partnership with Frost Valley YMCA in the Catskill mountains of New York State serving children and young adults with developmental disabilities from 8-18 in an inclusive setting striving to expand the reach of summer camp to all people.

Camp Type: Developmental Disabilities Camps