Jim McHardy shares the value of respite services for families with children with special needs and opportunities for differently abled children to attend summer camp. Read more…
Underachievement And ADHD: Is There A Connection?
28/11/2011 By 1 Comment
When professionals, or parents, conclude that a child is an “underachiever”, they might as well be swearing at the kid!
We Are All Special at Summer Camp
14/03/2011 By Leave a Comment
At the recent Ontario Camps Association Conference I had the privilege of attending the kindred group meeting for the Special Needs Camps. It had been eons since I had last rubbed shoulders with this group, and almost twenty-five years since I first agreed to sit on what was then called the Integration Committee. I was struck by how far our society and particularily organized children’s camping has come in its understanding and openness to providing social-recreation experiences for children, youth and families.
The Summer Camp Expo…a Hint of What’s to Come!
28/02/2011 By Leave a Comment
At the first ever Our Kids Summer Camp Expo, representatives and staff from over forty-five different summer camps filled the hall with booths equipped with beach balls, wooden cabin-like roofs, as well as frisbees, arts and crafts, and even mini-s’mores! Each camp brought it’s own slice of summer to meet with over 600 curious families, consisting of parents as well as their budding campers, whether they browsed through their options in strollers or in tightly-packed huddles of teenage friends.
Taking kids to Brain School
25/11/2010 By Leave a Comment
After over two years, Howard Eaton’s Brain School: Stories of Children With Learning Disabilities and Attention Disorders Who Changed Their Lives by Improving Their Cognitive Functioning is now in the hands of the public! Parents at Eaton Arrowsmith School sat down this past Monday Nov 22nd to listen to Howard Eaton, director of Eaton Arrowsmith School Vancouver and Victoria, read excerpts from his book and to pick up their copies. At times it was difficult for Howard to read the chapters without becoming emotional, as he reflected on the life changes that the students enrolled at Eaton Arrowsmith School have made by strengthening their cognitive capacities for learning…in essence, by rewiring their brains, thus enabling them to transition back to typical public and private schools with no or far reduced need for academic or social support.
Our Kids News Roundup: Nov. 8 – Nov. 12
15/11/2010 By Leave a Comment
Our Kids provides the education, camp, and parenting headlines you should know. A new StatsCan study announces that over the past twenty years, high school drop-outs rates have decreased almost by half, from 16.6 per cent to 8.5 per cent. Students with ADHD are warned to avoid Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec. They are apparently [...]
