Leadership camps for middle to high school age youth. Prices vary - discounts for UMCP affiliates. The camp, staffed by professional staff and trained advanced students, includes planned activities in arts, crafts, indoor, and outdoor games, music, swimming, dramatics, trips, and other special events. Special services are offered to children who are experiencing developmental delays, physical fitness and coordination problems, brain damage, mental retardation, emotional disturbances or orthopedic handicaps. Children enrolled in the program must be referred by professionals such as teachers, pediatricians, psychologists, or therapists.
Motor development is a major area of concern.
Three other programs are available in language development, reading development and parent education. The program is designed for children in infancy though the age of 21. Graduate students and faculty professionals in family service science provide clinical and educational services to families and couples from the metropolitan community. All ages are welcome. Instruction, comprised of individual, group and classroom lessons, is provided by a certified speech pathologist of HESP faculty member and assisted by graduate students.