Texas Summer Camps for Cerebral Palsy

It is time to start planning Regan's summer camp schedule. I am completely serious! It just turned January, and I got email reminders from two of her disability camps that the applications are now online....and since it can be pretty competitive to get the weeks we want, I am scurrying to get them filled out, and sent off so that we can plan for the other two camps she would like to fit in her summer schedule.

What can I say, My girls are summer camp crazy! Luckily there are several disability camps within a three hour radius of our house. In fact there are five that I know of.

We first sent Regan to camp at age 10....to one that was about 45 minutes from us, because I was terrified of her being on her own for a week, and well just unsure about how the whole disability camp thing worked. Well every year since that first week she has added one camp a year. So this year we are up to four camps....possibly five if we can figure out a way to get into the beach camp she would really like to go to.

Now to be honest we are very lucky. The main three camps she has attended are all free to us. Lions Camp, and Texas Elks camp are sponsored by those fraternal organizations and each child is fully funded and sponsored by a local club. In fact John Mark is a member of both of those organizations just to help raise money for the both camps. Camp Smiles is a cerebral palsy only week at camp and is sponsored completely by UCP (United Cerebral Palsy) and they raise the money for those kids for that week.

The two she would like to add both would cost us a bit of money, but in reality with all we save it would not be that big a deal, it just depends on what our budget looks like when the applications come out and are due. Anyway....it is weird to think about planning our June and July weeks for Regan right now as the temperatures have dropped and I have just traded my shorts for a warm up suit. I will be posting more about disability camps for my readers who are interested to let you know what to look for and our experiences as the months progress.