Special Needs Camps in the Bay Area

Play Pals Preschool offers sensory play, nature exploration, outdoor exploration, and child-led projects using open-ended materials that invite creativity and wonder. Children spend time building peer relationships in a play-based, Reggio-inspired...

LEAP Camp is part of The Leap Center’s neurodiverse summer day camp offerings and includes engaging enrichment activities and creative projects. Camp days can feature movement, sensory play, outdoor exploration, and pop-up experiences like robotics....

Parents as Teachers (PAT) offers individually tailored home visits that include developmental assessments, developmental intervention, and education. The program also provides individual therapeutic interventions, specialized group services to...

Music Therapy includes activities such as singing, instrument playing, music improvisation, songwriting, music and movement, and musical games. Sessions are led by board-certified music therapists, including the Rohnert Park Music Therapy...

The Creative Arts Program is part of AbilityPath, which offers support services for children, adults, and seniors with developmental disabilities and their families in the greater Bay Area. All programs in the organization’s service portfolio are...

REACH Before and After-School Childcare & Summer Day Camp offers activities such as computer lab, science projects, cooking, music, arts and crafts, games, sports, multicultural activities, and homework assistance. The program also includes daily...

ECMHP Groups & Events offers group-based services and events for infants, young children, and their families who face adversity. The program includes access to the ECMHP Emergency Food Pantry as part of its services for participating families. Its...

Kids & Art Amaeyzing Programs offers creative activities such as glass art, painting, working the clay wheel, and embroidery with professional artists. The program includes both in-person and at-home art experiences for pediatric patients with...

Outdoor Kids OT offers outdoor OT groups, individual occupational therapy sessions, and summer camps. The program also runs week-long small-group therapy day camps that take place in the great outdoors and in parks and woods. • Schedule: Week-long...

Special Olympics Northern California Sports Programs offers training and competitions in 11 sports, unified schools programs, health and wellness activities, and leadership training. The programs use sports to jumpstart change and spark joy, and...

Spectrum Surf Camps offers one-week surf camps that focus on surfing. Campers spend their time in the water learning and practicing surfing during these one-week surf camps. Participants experience the healing effects of the ocean and the...

UCP of the North Bay’s recreation offerings include activities such as hiking, train rides, carousel rides, paddle boating, canoeing, arts and crafts, and outdoor games. Participants in related programs also take part in Summer and Winter...

Learning: Empowered! Private Tutoring & College Advising offers tutoring and college advising for students. The program provides high school math tutoring, science tutoring, Spanish tutoring, history tutoring, SAT tutoring, math tutoring, English...

Friday Fun Night is a recurring program that takes place on the first Friday of the month. It is set up as a time when parents can drop off all their children together. Friday Fun Night is open to children and young people with a wide age span, from...

Reins in Motion Foundation offers Therapeutic Riding Lessons that include interaction with horses. The program also offers Veteran Group Therapy and a Summer Camp at the Ranch that involve horses, animals, and outdoor education activities. The...

Timpany Center Adaptive and General Swim Lessons offers adaptive swim lessons, general swim lessons, private swimming lessons for kids and adults with special needs, and semi-private swim lessons. Private lessons use a 1:1 instructor-to-swimmer...

Axiom Learning offers 1-on-1 tutoring with executive functioning support, test preparation for the SAT, ACT, ISEE, and SSAT, and several specialized programs including LEAP 3.0 for kids with ADHD, Dyslexia, Anxiety, and Autism. The program also...

Lyon Learning offers educational therapy, multi-subject tutoring, and brain coaching. The program provides science based and customized tutoring to strengthen brain processing and academic skills and to support people of any age in reaching their...

Eckstein Learning Solutions offers one-on-one processing and cognitive skills educational training using personal, intensive, research-based methods. The program includes PACE brain training, Primitive Reflex Integration, Brain Hemisphere...

Weingarten Children’s Center Preschool includes specific activities such as Morning Music as part of its program. The preschool is part of a Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) school and clinic that offers four programs that teach children who are...