Camps for VIBy: Carmen Willings
teachingvisuallyimpaired.com Updated November 10, 2015 Students can learn about different sports and leisure activities during a summer camp. Summer camps designed specifically for students who are blind or visually impaired can enhance students' recreation and leisure skills and provide them with the opportunity to learn basic skills they may have missed. Summer camps can also help build students' confidence by helping them learn new skills or to play games and sports played at school. These camps will provide students with the opportunity to be participants rather than observers. Additionally, camps can provide respite to families as well as provide volunteer and contact hours for those who may be interested in working with students with special needs and particularly for those interested in entering the vision field. If your program is considering starting a summer camp or you are interested in locating camps for your students, the following links will help locate an existing camp or replicate an existing camp model.
Locating an Existing CampEach state's School for the Blind will typically offer summer camps or will know of available camps. Lions Clubs support camps so you can check with your local chapter for camps in your area. You will find a variety of camps that are day camps and overnight camps. Many of the programs will combine recreational or leisure activities with learning activities related to the expanded core curriculum.
Camp AbilitiesRuns developmental sports camps with sports and recreation activities adapted and modified for children with blindness, visual impairments, or deafblindness, such as aquatics, track and field, goalball, gymnastics, tandem biking, beep baseball, Power Showdown, bocce, horseback riding, bowling, dancing, rollerblading, fishing, rowing, and rock climbing. The original camp was in Brockport, New York and additional camps have been patterned after it in different states.
National Camps for Blind Children/National Camps for the BlindNational Camps for the Blind and National Camps for Blind Children is affiliated with Christian Record Services. Inc. Offers free summer and winter camps in the United States and Canada for children and adults who are legally blind. Summer camps are open to people from 9 to 9=65 years of age and offer a variety of activities, including horseback riding, waterskiing, swimming, hiking, rappelling, canoeing, backpacking, archery, go-carts, beep baseball, and talent night. Winter camps are designed to give individuals ages 14-30 with visual impairments the opportunity to participate in winter activities, including skiing, sleighing, snowmobiling, and tubing.
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