Special Needs Camps for Kids in California

Camp Wonder is a summer camp where children play sports, go swimming, climb a rock wall, do arts and crafts, and attend a camp “prom.” Each year, children with chronic and life-threatening skin diseases from around the country attend Camp Wonder for...

Cal South TOPSoccer is a community-based recreational soccer program. The program focuses on soccer activities for athletes with physical and mental disabilities and relies heavily on support from TOPSoccer Buddies during soccer sessions. • Price:...

The Youth Wellness Program takes place at Pools of Hope, a nonprofit aquatic center that offers accessible aquatic therapy, swim lessons, and group wellness programs. The program uses warm water pools in an ADA-approved facility for exercise and...

Break the Barriers Gymnastics offers gymnastics classes that include activities on the trampoline, tumble track, parallel bars, uneven bars, high bar, spring floor, vault, rings, and balance beam. The program also offers Toddler & Me gymnastics,...

Break the Barriers Gymnastics Program offers gymnastics classes that use equipment such as the trampoline, tumble track, parallel bars, uneven bars, high bar, spring floor, vault, rings, and balance beam. The program also includes a Toddler & Me...

The Brain Highways Family Program is an online, entertaining Family Program that guides parents and kids on how to change their brain and nervous system. Families spend 30 (or 20) minutes daily doing lower brain movements while learning about the...

Education + Enrichment and Summer Camp Programs include vision stimulation, therapy services, toddler classroom learning, Orientation & Mobility training (O&M), assistive technology training, peer groups, expanded core curriculum, life-skills...

Beyond Karate offers martial arts fitness, karate, and self-defense for children and teens in a supportive community enrichment center. The program also includes creative workshops, life skills, leadership work training, tutoring, family coaching,...

Able ARTS Work Creative Enrichment Programs offers activities in visual arts, music, dance, movement, and theater. The program includes creative arts therapies and education in these areas for those with developmental disabilities and autism. It...

Learning for All Educational Therapy offers educational therapy that combines academics, cognition, memory, attention, enrichment, and functional remediation. The program includes specific work in spelling, reading, writing, math, reasoning,...

REINS Therapeutic Horsemanship Program offers therapeutic equine-assisted activities that include therapeutic horseback riding, adaptive riding, and mental health programs. Students take part in lessons that may involve riding horses, playing games,...

Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation Camps, Retreats and Adventures (including Champ Camp) includes activities such as the Fresno Urban Run, an Outdoor Trip, and a Statewide Ski Trip. The program also offers Champ Camp Camper Registration and Champ Camp...

The Miracle Project offers expressive arts classes, social skills classes, and a fully inclusive theater and film program. Participants take part in singing, performing, and creating an original musical as part of the expressive arts program. •...

Sun Camp is an inclusive day camp for kids, teens, and adults with Down syndrome and similar conditions, and their brothers and sisters. Sun Camp runs a summer day camp for children with Down syndrome and their siblings entering grades K–6, a Teens...

Queen of Hearts Therapeutic Riding Center offers equine-assisted activities and equine-assisted therapies. The program’s symbol is a horse head in the center of a heart, and its motto is “The Riding Spirit Comes from the Heart.” • Ages: 3–18 years...

Surfers Healing Surf Camps for Children with Autism gives children the chance to go surfing on tandem boards with experienced surf instructors. At camp, activities include time in the water surfing, as well as beach set-up, a registration table,...

The Circle of Horses is a non-profit, community based, equine-assisted program. Participants take part in an equine-assisted program and can receive lessons with a certified therapeutic riding instructor. The program utilizes two types of...

Kids Like Me offers activities such as dance, art, cooking, coding, music production, karate and martial arts, Dungeons & Dragons, and Coding Robots. Children can take part in hands-on projects in a Wood Workshop, including building simple items...

AYSO EPIC Program - North Valley Region 174 offers soccer for athletes with disabilities. The program uses EPIC Buddies, who are non-disabled players that assist EPIC players on the field. EPIC teams are typically small and coeducational and are...

Back Bay Therapeutic Riding Center offers therapeutic riding lessons, Equine-Assisted Learning (EAL), Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy & Therapy (EAPT), and other horse-based activities. Participants take part in equine-assisted services that include...