INSTITUTE FOR REHABILITATION RESEARCH & RECREATION INC

WHO WE ARE: • The Institute for Rehabilitation, Research and Recreation, Inc. • DBA Camp Meadowood Springs • Formerly Meadowood Springs Speech and Hearing Camp WHAT WE DO: Camp Meadowood Springs is a unique organizational summer camp proudly offering programs for children/individuals with social and communication challenges. Presently, the camp offers two distinct programs: Adventures in Communication and Camp Tomodachi. Adventures in Communication: The Adventures in Communication program (Formerly the Speech-Language and Hearing Camp) is a unique recreational summer camp experience mixed with an intensive schedule of individualized speech-language therapy. Campers will make new friends, enhance independent thinking skills, and enjoy a variety of camp activities. Campers will work directly with student clinicians (Supervised by experienced and certified clinicians) to meet or exceed specific articulation and/or social thinking goals as detailed in the camper's IEP, 504, assessment, or screening results. In these sessions, our student clinicians utilize all of the camp's activities to administer therapeutic techniques, thus allowing campers to achieve goals in a fun and creative manner. By the end of our seven-day overnight sessions campers will have received up to 28 hours of individual speech-language therapy in a single week without even realizing they were undergoing speech therapy. In addition, Camp Meadowood Springs offers a four-day day camp for first-time or less experienced campers which offers the same benefits of the seven-day session. Campers in the four-day day camp receive up to 12 hours of individual speech-language therapy. Camp Tomodachi: Camp Tomodachi is a co-ed overnight camp for children and teens with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder and asperger’s syndrome. Children that attend Camp Tomodachi will get to participate in a fun traditional camp experience surrounded by the supports necessary to encourage friendship and take the ultimate experience away from summer camp. Tomadachi stands for friendship in Japanese and that is the goal of camp- to build friendships and relationships while having a great time. Kids get to be kids and be embraced by a supportive staff at Camp Tomodachi WHY WE DO IT: The ability to communicate is perhaps the most important of all human needs. It enables us to express our feelings, protect ourselves when threatened, and exchange information with others. However, with the recent surge in Autism diagnoses across the country, along with the various other social learning challenges like Asperger’s Syndrome, ADD, ADHD, etc., communication and socialization doesn’t always come naturally to children struggling with these challenges. Camp Meadowood Springs aims to coach and guide children and individuals through their individual challenges with social learning through innovative summer camp programs where adventure and recreation is used to administer cutting edge therapeutic techniques.