SMILE Summer Camp™
Peak Potential Therapy - Northfield, 7689 Sagamore Hills Blvd, Northfield, OH 44067
About
SMILE Summer Camp is a therapeutic day camp where campers take part in activities such as therapeutic horseback riding, playing miniature golf, bowling, swimming at community pools, visiting the zoo, and going on field trips to places including Cleveland Metroparks & Zoo, Hale Farm & Village, Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland Botanical Gardens, Fun ‘n Stuff, Sky Zone, and The Jump Palace. The camp includes intensive speech-language therapy tailored to each child’s goals, with a low ratio of 8 campers to 1 speech therapist and 2 assistants, and space is limited to 8 children per week. The camp welcomes all kids in the community, including siblings and friends, and provides daily journals, daily and weekly visual schedules, and visual supports.
• Ages: 6–18 years old
• Schedule: Week-long sessions offered from the week of June 1 through the week of August 14, Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–3:00 PM, with the 10–16 age group the first week and alternating weekly with the 6–10 age group; families can register for one week or any combination of weeks.
• Price: $800/week with registration and a $100 deposit per registered week received by March 31, or $950/week after March 31; Before & After Care is available for $25 per hour; an aide can be added for $25 per hour; a Progress Report (ESY) is available upon request for $135.
SMILE Summer Camp is led and directed by a speech-language therapist as a therapeutic day camp and is part of Peak Potential Therapy, which was established in 2008 to provide individualized services to families in the greater Cleveland and Akron communities in Ohio. The camp’s mission is to optimize total communication, especially for children with disabilities and their families, in order to improve social skills, behaviors, and emotional regulation, with services provided wherever it meets families’ needs best. The program can be used to supplement ESY or serve as an alternative to ESY, with funding available through the school district, and the cost includes all camp activities, supplies, snacks, data collection on IEP objectives, speech-language therapy, daily field trip costs, transportation to and from daily field trips, a camp T-shirt upon completion, daily journal, daily and weekly visual schedules, and visual supports.
SMILE Summer Camp and Peak Potential Therapy offer developmental free screenings in speech, occupational, and behavior areas, a free intake session valued at $198, free support services such as a parent support group, access to a resource and toy lending library, discounted summer camp using a Pay-it-Forward account, a yearly client appreciation party, and therapy sessions that are 60 minutes long. Programs are developed around the unique needs of each client, and services are provided in-home, at a therapy center, in the community, at school, and via telehealth, with CareCredit accepted and special financing options available. Peak Potential Therapy is an Autism Scholarship Provider and Jon Peterson Special Needs Provider, and is an in-network health insurance provider for Aetna, Anthem BlueCross BlueShield, Cigna, SummaCare, Medical Mutual of Ohio, TRICARE – Military Health System, and United Healthcare, and invoices can be billed to County Board of Developmental Disabilities and the PASSS Program.
Parent testimonials describe improvements in children’s speech, communication, and behavior after attending services and summer camp with Peak Potential Therapy, including one parent who reported a child progressing from one- and two-word statements to full sentences and singing after six weeks of summer camp, and another who reported non-verbal autistic twins beginning to talk and having shorter tantrums after a little over one year of therapy. Other parents describe the staff, including Holly and Natalie, as caring, helpful, and understanding, and note that they receive therapeutic information and strategies to use at home, as well as responsive communication by text and phone. One parent of a 13-year-old with verbal apraxia reports that the child still enjoys and looks forward to speech sessions.
Last updated July 3, 2026.
• Ages: 6–18 years old
• Schedule: Week-long sessions offered from the week of June 1 through the week of August 14, Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–3:00 PM, with the 10–16 age group the first week and alternating weekly with the 6–10 age group; families can register for one week or any combination of weeks.
• Price: $800/week with registration and a $100 deposit per registered week received by March 31, or $950/week after March 31; Before & After Care is available for $25 per hour; an aide can be added for $25 per hour; a Progress Report (ESY) is available upon request for $135.
SMILE Summer Camp is led and directed by a speech-language therapist as a therapeutic day camp and is part of Peak Potential Therapy, which was established in 2008 to provide individualized services to families in the greater Cleveland and Akron communities in Ohio. The camp’s mission is to optimize total communication, especially for children with disabilities and their families, in order to improve social skills, behaviors, and emotional regulation, with services provided wherever it meets families’ needs best. The program can be used to supplement ESY or serve as an alternative to ESY, with funding available through the school district, and the cost includes all camp activities, supplies, snacks, data collection on IEP objectives, speech-language therapy, daily field trip costs, transportation to and from daily field trips, a camp T-shirt upon completion, daily journal, daily and weekly visual schedules, and visual supports.
SMILE Summer Camp and Peak Potential Therapy offer developmental free screenings in speech, occupational, and behavior areas, a free intake session valued at $198, free support services such as a parent support group, access to a resource and toy lending library, discounted summer camp using a Pay-it-Forward account, a yearly client appreciation party, and therapy sessions that are 60 minutes long. Programs are developed around the unique needs of each client, and services are provided in-home, at a therapy center, in the community, at school, and via telehealth, with CareCredit accepted and special financing options available. Peak Potential Therapy is an Autism Scholarship Provider and Jon Peterson Special Needs Provider, and is an in-network health insurance provider for Aetna, Anthem BlueCross BlueShield, Cigna, SummaCare, Medical Mutual of Ohio, TRICARE – Military Health System, and United Healthcare, and invoices can be billed to County Board of Developmental Disabilities and the PASSS Program.
Parent testimonials describe improvements in children’s speech, communication, and behavior after attending services and summer camp with Peak Potential Therapy, including one parent who reported a child progressing from one- and two-word statements to full sentences and singing after six weeks of summer camp, and another who reported non-verbal autistic twins beginning to talk and having shorter tantrums after a little over one year of therapy. Other parents describe the staff, including Holly and Natalie, as caring, helpful, and understanding, and note that they receive therapeutic information and strategies to use at home, as well as responsive communication by text and phone. One parent of a 13-year-old with verbal apraxia reports that the child still enjoys and looks forward to speech sessions.
Last updated July 3, 2026.
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