It is also a very positive self-advocacy step for the child. Encourage your child's teachers, coaches, and therapists to communicate directly with summer staff so they have a head start in deciding what approaches work best with your child. Planning ahead ensures the best possible fit between a program and your child making for year round success. Counselors are graduate students who have received specialized training in behavior modification, social skills training and classroom management. Areas of focus include classroom behavior, cooperation, academic performance and social skills, as well as athletic skills.
Academic remediation is offered for children with specific learning problems.
Parents are taught specialized parenting skills to enhance parent-child relations. Dr. Kurtz has been professionally involved in camps for more than 20 years as a counselor, administrator, course lecturer, voluntary board member, and consultant in traditional, non-specialized camps, mainstreamed inclusion camps, and camps specifically for children with behavioral and emotional problems.