Special Needs Camps - Individual Camps with Websites

Please note: Camps are listed by state for convenience. This does not mean the camp limits admissions to individuals in their state.
Check each camp's web site to determine their admission policy.

| Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky |
| Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico |
| New York | North Carolina | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah |
| Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Washington, D.C. | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyoming |

 

Alabama

• Camp ASCCA
  Mission is to help children and adults with disabilities achieve equality, dignity, and maximum independence.

Alaska

• Alaska Asthma Camps
  Champ Camp and Limitless Adventures present an opportunity for growth and development for youth with asthma and their families.
• Camp Alpine
  A weeklong camp where campers learn a variety of skills in a nurturing environment. Activities include canoeing, hiking, swimming, outdoor games, sports, nature identification and much more.
• Diabetes Camp at Camp Kushtaka
  Kids with diabetes are in the minority ... except at diabetes camp. At camp, kids with diabetes are surrounded by people just like them -- both kids and adults who share their day to day challenges and triumphs managing diabetes. Diabetes camp gives kids the opportunity to meet and learn from adult counselors with diabetes who have gone through many of the things the campers are experiencing, and can share the ways they coped with the problems and pitfalls of having diabetes.

Arizona


• Camp Civitan
  Offers eight one-week camping sessions for people with disabilities.
• Camp HONOR (Hemophiliacs Overcoming New Obstacles Resourcefully)
  Life-skills for all of the children with bleeding disorders like hemophilia, von Willebrand’s Disease, and Thrombophilia.
• Dream Street Camp
  Founded in 1988, Dream Street provides a customized camping program for children with terminal, chronic, and life-threatening infirmities.  Over 600 children with cancer, AIDS, cystic fibrosis, leukemia, blood disorders and other serious diseases are given the opportunity to enjoy activities that would otherwise be unavailable to them because of their illnesses. For children who often require medications or treatment several times a day, summer camp is not usually an option. Dream Street is able to offer this experience by supplying a complete medical staff at each camp.

Arkansas


• Camp Aldersgate
  Camps for children and youth who have conditions such as cancer, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, diabetes, arthritis, asthma, epilepsy, kidney disorders, autism, Down's syndrome, and mental retardation.

California


• Camp Beyond the Scars
  Camp Beyond the Scars consists of a three-day winter camp and a weeklong summer camp. Both camps provide a relaxed social setting, which offers burn-injured children the support and counseling needed to establish and enhance their self-esteem. Campers learn that there are other children who have had the same unfortunate experience. Camp has proved to be a positive, special experience for young burn survivors.
  
• Camp Krem
  Provides summer camp for children and adults with developmental disabilities, such as Down Syndrome, Autism, and Cerebral Palsy.
  
• Camp ReCreation
  Provides a residential summer camp program which offers participants with developmental disabilities opportunities for fun, social interaction, skill development, and spiritual growth while increasing the awareness and acceptance of our participants in the larger community.
  
• Camping Unlimited
  A residential camp for children with developmental disabilities in Northern California's Santa Cruz Mountains.
  
• Camp Rubber Soul
  To provide a unique recreational camp, integrating children with special needs and youth counselors to experience friendship, understanding, acceptance and allow respite for families and caregivers.
  
• Kris' Camp
  Therapy camp focusing on children with autism/autistic like challenges
  
• Special Camp for Special Kids
  Educational and recreational summer day camp for youth with disabilities in one-to-one peer relationships with volunteer counselors. 

Colorado

• All Abilities Horse Camp
  The Colorado Therapeutic Riding Center All Abilities Horse Camp offers an opportunity for children with and without disabilities to gain riding skills and learn about horses in a fun, safe and supportive environment.
  

• Adam's Camp
  The mission of Adam’s Camp is to maximize the strengths and potential of children and young adults with special needs by bringing together dedicated families with outstanding professionals and volunteers to provide specialized intensive therapy programs, family support and recreational camps.

Connecticut


• Camp Horizons
  Provide high quality residential, recreational, support and work programs for people who are developmentally disabled or who have other challenging social and emotional needs.
• Hole In The Wall Gang Camp
  This camp founded by Paul Newman, is a nonprofit residential summer camp for children with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses. Eight hundred children from 7 to 15 years old come each year, free of charge, from the U.S. and abroad.

Delaware

• Camp Fairlee Manor
  Serves children and adults with physical disabilities and/or cognitive impairments throughout the summer and on select weekends year-round. Sessions offer a wide range of activities including arts and crafts, sports and games, nature walks, swimming, fishing, high/low ropes courses and canoeing. The respite camp at Fairlee Manor serves children and adults with the most involved physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioral disabilities, including some medically-fragile individuals. The number of campers are fewer than those that attend the residential camp in order to meet extensive personal needs. The respite program operates on weekends on a year-round basis.
  

 

Florida

• Camp Boggy Creek
  A year round camp for seriously ill children and offer weeklong summer sessions for the children and family retreat weekends for the whole family. There is no charge to the children or families who come to Boggy Creek. We invite you to explore this site and open your hearts to the magic of serving these brave children. Once you do, we hope you'll join us.
• Camp Thunderbird
  For developmentally disabled individuals from age 8 to 80.
• Dream Oaks Camp
  The Mission of the Foundation for Dreams, Inc. and Dream Oaks Camp is to provide fun, educational, and recreational experiences in an outdoor camp environment to enhance the lives of children ages 7-17 with physical and developmental disabilities and serious illnesses.
• Kids Toolbox For Success Camps
  Offers year round one, two or four- week programs specializing in communication skills, social interactions and academic enhancement. Programs are not limited to speech, language and/or cognitive disorders. Programs are based on the premise that speaking, listening and social skills are essential to successful educational, vocational and social outcomes for people of all ages. The programs are designed to provide structure and practical opportunities that facilitate ease in using the tools for improved interpersonal relationships, classroom performance and leadership skills. We also offer expertise in accent improvement, communication effectiveness training, assistance and coaching to facilitate personal goal attainment for children, teens and adults who desire to navigate in mainstream society, successfully.

Georgia

• Camp Caglewood
  Camp Caglewood offers weekend camping trips and day camps for children and adults with special needs.
• Camp Kudzu
  Provides education, recreation and peer-networking programs for Georgia's children with Type 1 ( Juvenile ) Diabetes.

  Camp Twin Lakes
  Camp Twin Lakes is the only camping facility in Georgia for children with chronic illnesses and disabilities. The goal of the camp is to provide a great camping experience for children who otherwise might not have one and to do this in a supportive and nurturing environment.
  

• Amputee Coalition of America Youth Camp
  The ACA covers all costs for attending the camp, but we have limited space, apply early. To be considered, you must be a young amputee between the ages of 10 and 17 and be ready for an exciting adventure!

Hawaii

• Asthma Sports Day Camp
  Children in grades K-6 with mild to severe asthma enjoy three fun-filled days of outdoor recreational activities, sports clinics, and crafts in a camp-like atmosphere. Children will improve their asthma management skills and their self-image as they make friends in a supportive and medically-supervised environment.
• Camp Imua
  Special Camp for Special Campers held at Camp Maluhia in the West Maui Mountains, fifty campers and over one hundred volunteers come together for a week of crafts, games, swimming, helicopter rides and general fun, all the while making new friends and catching up with old.  We express our deepest gratitude to all those community members who come forward to make this unique camping experience for children with special needs such an amazing and inspirational week.

Idaho

• Camp Hodia
  Our programs strive to foster self-esteem and self-reliance in a safe, healthy environment. Campers learn self care, good nutrition and blood-sugar control. They are shown how to balance meals with activity and exercise. Many campers learn to give their first insulin shot—a big step toward independence.
• CW HOG's Kids Camp
  An adventurous week long day camp, our Kids Camp is designed for children of all abilities and their families. Activities may include horseback riding, water-skiing, rock climbing, rappelling, canoeing, and scuba diving. An overnight camping trip and whitewater raft trip gives your child an opportunity to experience the outdoors.

Illinois

• Camp Ability
  Traditional summer camp experience designed especially for children and young adults with spina bifida.
• Camp Callahan
  Dedicated to serving youth with wide-ranging disabilities through a stimulating, liberating program in an environment that is physically and socially adapted to the personal needs of these very special campers. The camp has the specialized environment, equipment, activities, accessible buildings, and a trained adult staff to overcome the barriers that a person with disabilities would encounter at ordinary summer camps.
• Illinois Fire Safety Alliance Burn Camp
  IFSA Burn Camp is the setting for burn survivors to share common experiences, make new friends and enjoy camp activities
• Timber Pointe Outdoor Center
  Timber Pointe offers special needs and inclusive camp sessions for children and adults ages 6 and up. Campers participate in traditional camp activities such as swimming, fishing, boating, arts & crafts, target sports, music, and horseback riding. It is an experience of outdoor life for kids whose health issues make these activities often seem impossible. It is a chance for campers to develop independence and confidence. There were six weeklong Easter Seals sessions this summer, including camps for adults with disabilities, youth/young adults with physical disabilities, youth/young adults with developmental disabilities, and youth with ADD/ADHD.  In addition, we offer weekend respite camps during the school year.

Indiana

• Anderson Woods
  Provides camp experience and residential services to persons with mental and/or physical disabilities. Campers learn self confidence, trust and responsibility through working together, caring for animals, tending the garden, and enjoying the beauty of nature.  Camp is a place where everyone is equal.
  
• Camp About Face
  Specially designed to benefit youth ages 8-18 with craniofacial anomalies. Typical camping activities are provided. Activities include swimming, nature projects, campouts, etc., supplemented by social work, medical support and educational sessions to help build self-esteem and self-confidence. Camp provides many special opportunities for the children to develop supportive relationships and long lasting friendships with others who identify with them and can share similar life experiences. Teen campers 15-18 are offered opportunities for leadership, teambuilding, off-site camping and group challenges.

• Hoosier Burn Camp
  Offers a life-enriching, unforgettable summer camp experience for young men and women who have experienced injuries from burns.

• Indiana Children's Deaf Camp
  All deaf and hard-of-hearing children ages 4 through 15 of any race, religion, or sex are welcome to come to camp.

Iowa

• Camp Albrecht Acres
  Providing a unique environment for people with special needs
• Camp Courageous
  Camp Courageous of Iowa is a year-round respite and recreational facility for individuals with disabilities of all ages.
• Camp Tanager Hemophilia Camp
  Held each year in mid-June. This special camp is one of a kind in the mid-west. During the six-day camp children with Hemophilia and their siblings participate in individual and group activities designed for fun and fitness. They also gain a better understanding of Hemophilia and its effects on individuals and families. The Hemophilia Camp has a 24-hour physician and nursing staff. The camp began in 1986 and serves 50-60 children with Hemophilia and their siblings each year.

Kansas

• CP Ranch
  Serves those with a wide range of disabling conditions and provides an opportunity to improve their quality of life through discovery and/or enhancement of social, recreational, and educational life skills.

Kentucky

• Camp KYSOC
  Provides a unique camping experience for children and adults with physical or developmental disabilities including learning and behavioral disorders or eating disorders. KYSOC has accessible facilities and black-topped paths so everyone can enjoy its rustic setting and traditional camping activities including hiking, swimming, crafts, and campfires.  Camp KYSOC has both day camp and resident summer camp programs, as well as respite weekends and retreat opportunities throughout the year. 
• Lions Camp Crescendo
  Includes camp session for blind and visually impaired youth, deaf and hard of hearing youth and children infected or affected by HIV/AIDS.
• Medical Camping - Center for Courageous Kids
  We focus on 2 unique and uplifting camping experiences: During the school year, we conduct family weekends (wherein the entire family can attend) and in the summer months, we host week-long sessions (devoted specifically to the ill child). A year round high caliber medical camp devoted to the bravest kids we know...and their remarkable families. Camps for healthy children are full of physical barriers that make program participation by an ill or disabled child difficult or impossible. These challenges only call attention to a child's illness or disability. Our facility and program are designed so the ill child can feel they are just like everyone else. Built to exceed the spirit and intent of the Americans with Disabilities Act, children enjoy total unrestricted, access to every feature and program of the Camp. Children requiring special monitoring, multiple medications, chemotherapy, dialysis, transfusions, and many other procedures, are welcome.

Louisiana

• Camp Friendship
  Camp for children with spina bifida

Maine

• Camp Kingswood’s Zohar Program
  The Zohar program is open to boys and girls ages 11 to 15. Campers represent children with developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, neurological, and learning challenges.
• Camp Sunshine
  Provides respite, support, joy and hope to children with life-threatening illnesses and their immediate families through various stages of a child’s illness. The year-round program is free of charge to all families, and includes 24-hour onsite medical and psychosocial support. Bereavement groups are also offered for families who have lost a child to an illness.
• Pine Tree Camp
  Offers Maine children and adults with disabilities an extraordinary summer camp experience. The 280-acre camp is located on North Pond in Rome, Maine. The facility is fully adapted to meet the special needs of campers. The barrier-free setting and commitment of our staff allow campers to fully participate in activities that normally aren’t available to them including swimming, fishing, boating, outdoor games, kayaking, arts and crafts and even camping in a tent under the stars.
  
  

Maryland

• Camp Greentop
  Residential camps specifically designed for children and adults with cognitive, physical, emotional and multiple disabilities.
• Camp Superkids
  Camp Superkids is an annual residential week-long camp for children with asthma ages 7 1/2 - 12 who reside in Maryland.

• Lions Camp Merrick
  Lions Camp Merrick provides week-long residential camping experiences for deaf, blind, and children with diabetes, ages 6 –16.  Additionally the camp provides many shorter weekend retreats and day long sessions for related activities, including Scouting and 4-H.
  

Massachusetts


• Camp Celiac
  Camp Celiac is a rapidly growing, dedicated gluten-free, summer camp program for children and youth with Celiac Disease ages 7-16.
• Camp Starfish
  Serves emotionally, behaviorally, and learning disabled children by providing a safe therapeutic milieu in a natural camp setting with a one-one camper to staff ratio.
• PKU Camp
  In collaboration with Children's Hospital in Boston this camp offers a coed week of camp in August where children with PKU join campers with and without PKU for a totally integrated week of overnight summer camp. This opportunity allows children with PKU the unusual opportunity to meet other children facing the same issues, while following the specific PKU diet in a normal camp environment. Campers stay in cabins and participate in a specialty activity of their choice, such as sailing, tennis, performing arts or horseback riding.

Michigan

• St. Francis Camp on the Lake
  This is a non-profit organization dedicated to the belief that mentally impaired children and adults should have the right to experience life to its fullest.
• Trail's Edge Camp
  A summer camp for children with special medical needs: campers have tracheotomies or need ventilator assistance. They typically are thought to be too "medically fragile" to go to camp because of the specific care they require. Trail's Edge campers generally between the ages of 3-18 are given a unique opportunity to experience the joy of the great outdoors.

Minnesota

• Camp Confidence
  A year-round center for persons with developmental disabilities specializing in recreation and outdoor education, the Confidence Learning Center serves persons of all ages and abilities.
• Camp Discovery
  Offers a summer camping experience for young people with a serious skin condition. Under the expert care of dermatologists and nurses, Camp Discovery offers campers the opportunity to spend a week among other young people who have similar skin conditions. Many of the counselors have serious skin conditions as well, and can provide support and advice to campers. Fun, friendship, and independence are on the top of everyone’s agenda and everyone shares in the discoveryof what it’s like to be included.
• Camp Friendship
  Friendship Ventures offers summer resident camp programs from June through August at Camp Friendship near Annandale, Minnesota, and Eden Wood Center in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Camp programs are open to anyone age 5 and older who has developmental and (or) physical disability. Participants with disabilities may bring a friend, brother or sister without a disability to "All Kids Belong" sessions at Camp Friendship or "Celebrate Summer" sessions at Eden Wood.
  
• Camp Heartland
  The world's largest camping and outreach program for children ages 7 to 16 who are living in the shadow of HIV or AIDS.
• Camp Sertoma
  Camp Sertoma was set up to provide growth oriented outdoor learning and wilderness camping experiences within a peer environment for youth who are deaf or hard of hearing.
• Kids on 2 Wheels, Inc.
  dedicated to teaching children with physical disabilities how to pedal two-wheel bikes like pros during a week-long day training camp. Provides opportunities for kids with disabilities and/or special needs to learn to ride 2-wheel bikes.
  

Mississippi

• Camp Dream Street
  Dream Street campers come from Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and West Tennessee and are between the ages of eight and fourteen. All of our campers are children with physical disabilities and/or related cognitive disabilities. Predominant diagnoses of our campers include cerebral palsy, spina bifida, limb deficiencies, spinal cord injury, mental retardation, communicative disorders and other developmental disabilities. We are able to accept approximately sixty children each summer for the program.

Missouri

• Camp Barnabas
  Camping experiences to people with special needs and to their siblings.
• Wonderland Camp
  People of all ages and disabilities are welcome at Wonderland Camp. Activities include boating, fishing, archery, miniature golf, nature walks, and riflery.
  

Montana

• Big Sky Kids Cancer Camps
  Program at Eagle Mount brings young cancer patients, age 5 to 23, to Southwestern Montana for outdoor recreation camps. We provide a positive environment and give children, teens, and their parents emotional support, a sense of normalcy, and a network of friends who share similar experiences. Our focus is on wellness instead of illness, and strengths rather than limitations.
• Camp Mak-A-Dream
  Provides a medically-supervised, cost free experience for children and young adults with cancer.
  

Nebraska

• Camp Kindle
  Free summer camp for youth ages 7-18 who are infected with or affected by HIV and AIDS. Has a mission is to improve the quality of life for young people infected or affected by HIV and AIDS. A child's self-acceptance is often made more difficult by the challenges of HIV. Giving young people chances to succeed, learn and grow sends messages that they are in fact special, unique and talented. 

Nevada

• Camp Lotsafun
  Provides recreational, therapeutic, and educational opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities, while providing respite care for their families.

New Hampshire

• Camp Allen
  Camp Allen is a non-profit summer camp for children and adults with special physical and developmental needs. Established in Boston, Massachusetts, the camp is located in Bedford, New Hampshire and is owned and operated by the Kiwanis Club of Boston and the Manchester Lions Club. Camp Allen's mission is to provide a summer camping opportunities for children, adults, and families with physical or developmental challenges.

New Jersey

• Camp Dream Street
  Camp Dream Street is a special, week-long day camp experience serving the needs of children with cancer and other blood disorders. Siblings are also invited to participate in the wide variety of social and recreational activities provided at the camp.
• Camp Hope
  An eight-week summer day program that offers swimming, sports, music, nature, art and field trips. Located on seven wooded, fenced acres in East Hanover, Camp Hope provides a structured, caring and supportive environment that brings together campers, counselors and volunteers for fun, personal growth and “memories that last a lifetime.”
  
• Camp Oakhurst
  Serves children and adults with physical disabilities. Summer camp, year round respite and vacation programs.
  
• Camp Quality
  Non-profit organization provides a free week long camping experience and year support program for children with cancer.
  

New Mexico

• Camp Easter Seals New Mexico
  Offers one-week sessions for kids and adults with physical and/or mental disabilities.
  

New York

• Camp Good Days & Special Times
  Residential camping program are also run for children ages 8-17 with sickle cell anemia or children who have lost an immediate family member to homicide. Dedicated to improving the quality of life for children, adults and families whose lives have been touched by cancer and other life challenges. All of the programs and services provided by Camp Good Days are offered free of charge for the participants, which is only possible through the generosity of so many individuals and organizations and the success of our many special fundraising events.
• Camp Jened
  Serving adults with disabilities
• Camp Northwood
  A summer camp for children with learning disabilities.
• Camp Oakhurst
  A summer camp and year round respite program for children and adults with physical disabilities.
• Camp Huntington
  Co-ed, overnight, 7-week program serving 6-21 year old campers with Learning and Developmental Disabilities, ADD, PDD, autism and other special needs.
• Double H Hole in the Woods Ranch
  A camp for children with serious and chronic illnesses, part of the Paul Newman Hole in the Wall Gang camp family. Serves children with HIV/AIDS, cancer, hemophilia, spina bifida, and other serious illnesses with a medically safe and fun summer camp experience at no cost to the family. In 2004 will start offering a session for children and families where the camper is ventilator dependent for all or part of every day.
• Ramapo for Children
  Camp Ramapo, is consistent with Ramapo for Children’s overall mission: to serve children with a range of emotional and learning problems in a natural, outdoor environment. It provides educational and recreational experiences which promote social, emotional, physical and intellectual growth.
• Southampton Fresh Air Home
  The Southampton Fresh Air Home is a not-for-profit residential camp for physically challenged youth. Our mission is to provide an enriching, recreational camping experience. We are committed to helping our campers develop physically, emotionally, and educationally, with the goal of fostering self-esteem, maturity and independence through a broadly balanced program, while providing their families with a well-deserved respite. 
  

North Carolina

• Camp Carefree
  Camp for children with chronic illnesses and disabilities in North Carolina.  Also provide a week for children with disabilities, a week for siblings and a week for well children who has a parent with a chronic illness or disability.
  
• Camp Sky Ranch
  Located on 174 acres of forested land in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Camp Sky Ranch offers a fun-filled camping experience for people with disabilities.
  

• Talisman Summer Camps
  Specializes in creating camps that offer adventure and learning experiences for children and teenagers with learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Asperger's syndrome and high-functioning autism.
• Victory Junction Gang Camp
  The Victory Junction Gang Camp enriches the lives of children with chronic medical conditions or serious illnesses by providing life-changing camping experiences that are exciting, fun, and empowering, in a safe and medically sound environment. The children we serve may have any of the following health issues: arthritis, asthma, cancer, epilepsy, hemophilia, immunology deficiencies/HIV, sickle cell disease, spina bifida, gastrointestinal disease, heart disease, kidney disease, liver disease, neurological disease, skin disease, burn survivors, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, autism, craniofacial anomalies, physical disabilities, kids on vents, transverse myelitis.

North Dakota

• Anne Carlsen Center for Children Camp
  For teens with special needs, there are limited camping opportunities available. Anne Carlsen Center for Children is rooted in the belief that all people, regardless of disability, should have the chance to live life to its fullest. TechnoCamp supports and enhances the campers’ use of communication systems and technology to allow them to participate fully in the camping experience.
  

Ohio

• Amputee Coalition of America Youth Camp
  The purpose of the ACA Youth Camp is to provide a camping experience for youth with limb loss and limb difference that focuses on leadership development, nutrition education, and physical fitness, improving self-esteem, creating positive social interaction, and developing peer support.
• Camp Nuhop
  A residential summer camp for all children with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders and behavior disorders.
• Recreation Unlimited Farm and Fun
  Serves individuals with physical and developmental disabilities and supported through the development efforts of the Recreation Unlimited Foundation.  The mission of Recreation Unlimited is to provide year-round programs in sports, recreation and education for individuals with disabilities, while building self-confidence, self-esteem and promoting positive human relations, attitudes, and behaviors. 
• Rotary Camp for Children with Special Needs
  Offers camping experiences for children and adults with disabilities.  Children ages 6-17 and who have physical or developmental disabilities are eligible to participate in this fun-filled camping experience. Adults 18 and over with physical and developmental disabilities are eligible for specific programs.  The camp staff reviews all camper applications to ensure eligibility.

Oklahoma


• Wilderness Challenge Center
  Recreation, social, educational and pre-vocational activities for adults with disabilities. Activities include bowling, ceramics, basketball, movies, arts and crafts, camping, skiing, cooking, classes, etc.
  

Oregon

• Upward Bound Camp
  Provides on-going recreational and educational camp experiences for persons with disabilities, twelve years of age and over in an environment that presents opportunities for growth outside the individual’s usual routine or habitat.

Pennsylvania

• Camp Joy
  A special needs camp for kids and adults with developmental disabilities: mental retardation, autism, brain injury, and neurological disorders.

• Camp Horizon
  Camp Horizon offers children with chronic dermatologic conditions the opportunity to experience summer camp and support each other in a setting of acceptance, love and fun.
  

• Camp Lee Mar
  Camp Lee Mar is a private residential special needs camp for children and young adults with mild to moderate learning and developmental challenges, including but not limited to the following: mental retardation, developmental disabilities, down syndrome, autism, learning disabilities, Williams Syndrome, Asperger Syndrome, ADD, Prader Willi, and ADHD. Campers enjoy traditional camp and recreation activities PLUS academics, speech and language therapy, music and art therapy, daily living skills, sensory-motor-perceptual training, and computers.
  

• Camp Victory
  Established to serve chronically ill and physically disabled youths, Camp Victory has facilities that are equipped and available for people with disabilities. In addition to the regular camp scene, activities include casino nights, petting zoos, and talent shows. Both weekend and weeklong sessions are available.

• Summit Camp
  Provides a summer camp experience for boys and girls, ages 7-17, who have issues of attention. These may include Attention Deficit Disorder, verbal or non-verbal learning disabilities, mild social or emotional concerns, and/or Aspergers syndrome. Some of our campers may also have Tourrete's syndrome, O.C.D., and /or mild mood issues. Summit Travel works with older children, ages 15-19, who have similar issues.
  

• The Woodlands
  Provides year-round enrichment programs for children and adults with disability and chronic illness. We partner with other disability-related organizations so they can hold their programs at our 32-acre, fully accessible facility, and we sponsor a number of our own programs that draw together individuals with a variety of disabilities.

Rhole Island


• Camp Mauchatea
  Extended overnight camping and adventure for Rhode Island's blind and visually impaired on the journey to adulthood.
• Computer Camp
  A five week summer program that enables children in the local special education program to have fun, make friends, and engage in art, music and language art activities.
• Hasbro Children's Hospital Asthma Camp
  Community Asthma Programs of Hasbro Children's Hospital directs Rhode Island's only weeklong, overnight camp designed specifically for children with asthma. The annual summer camp gives children the opportunity to control their asthma through education in a positive, healthy, safe and challenging atmosphere. The camp is open to boys and girls with asthma who are between 9 and 13 years old, and is held at the Canonicus Camp and Conference Center in Exeter, Rhode Island. The camp is designed to provide an opportunity for children with asthma to share ideas, problems, and concerns about asthma. It also provides an opportunity for them to learn self-reliance and self-confidence outside the home. It provides a positive camp experience for children with asthma.
  

South Carolina

• Camp Burnt Gin
  A summer camp for children who have physical disabilities and chronic illnesses. From early June until mid August, Camp Burnt Gin operates five, seven day sessions for 7 through 15 year old children and two six day session for teenage

South Dakota

• Camps 4R Kids Foundation - A non-profit organization that seeks donations to fund free family camps and recreational experiences for kids with disabilities and their families.

Tennessee

• Easter Seals Tennessee Camping Program
  Provides high quality recreational camping services for children and adults with disabilities
  

Texas

• Camp C.A.M.P. (Children’s Association for Maximum Potential)
  Camp C.A.M.P. accommodates adolescents with physical limitations, including amputations. Riflery, cookouts, carnivals, and dances are just a few of the activities offered to young persons ages 5 to 21. Fees can be waived or lowered by cost-sharing programs, sliding fee scales, and camp scholarships for lower-income families.

• Camp Dermadillo
  Offers children with chronic dermatologic conditions the opportunity to experience summer camp and support each other in a setting of acceptance, love and fun.

• Camp Summit
  A residential camp in Texas for children, youth, and adults who are developmentally delayed, physically challenged, multi-disabled or dual sensory impaired.
• Charis Hills Summer Camp
  Summer Camp for kids with learning and social difficulties such as ADD, AD/HD, and Asperger's disorder. 
  
• Star Ranch Summer Camp
  This camp is specifically designed for boys and girls who have ADD, ADHD and other learning disabilities. 
• Texas Elk Camp
  Elks Camp is committed to teaching children that having a difference doesn't make a difference. Children ages 7 to 15 with varying emotional and physical special needs come to Elks Camp for one week and go home strong, confident and ready to face the world with new hope for the future, as reported consistently by parents and guardians.

Utah

• Camp Hobe
  Summer camp designed for children with cancer and their siblings, who are often forgotten in the cancer experience. Camp Hobé gives kids the opportunity to participate in camp activities just like healthy children whose families are not affected by cancer. The camp program provides medical and psychosocial supervision to ensure children are safe both mentally and physically during camp.
• Discovery Camps
  National Ability Center camps packed with fun, adventure and activities that will challenge your camper to discover his/her abilities, while making friendships to last a lifetime. These activities encourage campers to make friends, build social skills, strengthen physical agility and develop cognitive abilities while having more fun than they've ever had before.

Vermont

• Camp Thorpe
  We are a summer camp for children and adults with special needs. Our campers range in age from 10 to 80!

Virginia

• Camp Easter Seals Virginia
  Camp Easter Seals is designed to offer children and adults with disabilities the opportunity to enjoy fun and challenging activities in a supportive and cooperative atmosphere. From campfire sing-a-longs and late night ghost stories to canoeing, nature walks, swimming, and arts and crafts, the Easter Seals Virginia camping program provides the excitement and activity of a traditional summer camp program in a beautiful, accessible setting.
• Camp Optimism
  This summer residential camp for disabled and physically challenged children provides medical personnel and routine care on a 24 hour basis.

Washington

• Camp Agape
  For children with cancer and their families.
• Easter Seals Camp Stand By Me
  Provides residential summer camp for children and adults with disabilities and year-round respite services for their families. The joy, camaraderie, and personal growth of summer camp is something almost all of us have experienced and will remember the rest of our lives. Unfortunately, for people with disabilities, the opportunity to take part in this summer tradition is almost non-existent. Camp Stand By Me provides this special experience with a fully accessible, adaptive camp facility.

Wisconsin

• Badger Camp
  Wisconsin Badger Camp's mission is to provide a positive natural environment where individuals with developmental challenges can learn about their surroundings and realize their full potential. Through a group living experience, campers develop friendships and expand their social skills. Everyone, regardless of the severity of their disability, are welcome at Badger Camp.
• Camp Matz
  An outdoor campground on Bethesda's Watertown, Wis. Campus, which is fully accessible to people with cognitive and physical disabilities.
• Camp Needlepoint and Daypoint
  Provides a broad variety of activities in a safe, fun environment, encourage socialization and support among youth with diabetes, and help campers gain independence.
• Camp Pow Wow
  Camp Pow Wow offers residential and day camp options for people of all ages and a variety of abilities. Campers make friends and develop new skills through experiences in swimming, fishing, canoeing, arts and crafts, recreation, music and nature. Theme weeks provide campers with the opportunity to explore science, the outdoors and the arts through visits by special guests and activities including horseback riding and fire safety training. As one of the first camps in the area established to serve people with disabilities, Camp Pow Wow remains committed to accommodating all needs; no one is turned away due to disability or financial circumstance.
• Camp Wawbeek
  At Easter Seals Camp Wawbeek and Wisconsin Elks/Easter Seals Respite Camp, campers enjoy the beautiful outdoors while forming new friendships and discovering themselves through new experiences.  Our accessible camps share over 400 wooded acres through which campers can hike, climb, race, explore, swim, create, dance, sing and just hang out - all with friends by their side. Parents and caregivers can relax and enjoy a break from caregiving, knowing that well-trained counselors and staff, as well as a registered nurse, are on-site ensuring their loved one’s well-being and encouraging their growth.
• Camp WIKIDAS (WIsconsin KIDs with ASthma)
  A weeklong summer camp for children ages 8 through 13 with moderate to severe asthma. Camp takes place at Camp Wawbeek, a 400-acre site one mile northeast of the Wisconsin Dells in Columbia County. Children must be on daily asthma medication to attend. Boys and girls participate in swimming, rope and rock climbing, canoeing, hiking and other fun and challenging activities. Campers also attend instructional sessions where they learn how to manage their asthma in daily life. They forge relationships with children like themselves, realizing that other kids struggle with asthma too.
• Challenge Camp for Children with ADHD
  Challenge camp is an exciting opportunity for children ages 9 to 13 dealing with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression, anxiety or related disorders to improve their self-esteem, social skills and sense of personal responsibility. In a safe, supportive environment, Rogers Memorial Hospital camp staff guide your child through fun activities that help your child develop personal skills needed to deal with his or her behavioral health challenges.
• One Step At A Time Camp
  Provides positive, safe, and fun camping and other experiences for children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer and leukemia, as well as survivors of childhood cancer and leukemia, while benefiting volunteers and affected families.
• Timbertop Camp for Children with Learning Disabilities
  For boys and girls that have been identified by their school districts as needing extra help for a learning disability. Timbertop combines traditional camp programs with extra reading practice and special group activities that focus on dealing with learning disabilities. Special attention is paid to peer relations, building self-confidence and learning new skills.
• Wisconsin Lions Camp
  Offers separate camping sessions for children with visual, hearing or mild cognitive disabilities, and children with diabetes in Rosholt.

Wyoming

• Camp Hope
  Wyoming's Summer Camp for Children with Diabetes

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