One of the hardest aspects of summer is for Katie. She NEEDS to be doing something, but most programs aren't equipped to be welcoming to kids with special needs. After many, many hours of searching, we found Camp Nugget at Cal STate Long Beach. It was a 4 week movement based program - sports and swimming with social skills and other supports built in. It was perfect for her! Tehre were some amazing counselors - and I suspect that Katie taught them a lot about the real life with kids on the spectrum and with intellectual disabilities!
I would say that she was really, really proud of her "Most Enthusiastic" award. Every day, when we got to camp, Katie would announce "this is my camp. I love my camp" - several times!
This was her favorite best friend at camp!
Massively blessed by the counselors who gave their time and hearts to my girl - she "loved her camp"!
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