Austine Green Mountain Lions Camp 2012 Flyer
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- Thanks to FF.

Virginia School for the Deaf in Staunton is holding a week-long summer enrichment day program June 25 – 29 for 2 – 6 years olds who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Letter to parents (PDF):
VSDBPreKSummer2012

Application (PDF):
VSDBPreKSummer2012ApplicationFull

- Thanks to SG and SS

July 29—Aug 3, 2012

Manidokan Camp & Retreat Center in Knoxville, MD

Deaf Camp—ages 7-19 ~ ASL Camp—ages 8-18

Cost: $430 per camper ~ Scholarships available!

To register, visit www.deafcampsinc.org

- Thanks to NVRC, Fairfax and Deaf Camps, Inc.

Family Camp in California for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Their Families

By Cheryl Heppner, 4/26/2012

Thanks to the Consortium for Communication Access via Captioning (CCAC) we learned about the DHH Family Camp (Camp Marston) in San Diego, California.  It’s a place where families with deaf or hard of hearing children get together to play and learn from each other.

There’s a YouTube video approximately 2 ½ minutes long that is captioned.  In this video, parent Melanie Doyle talks about her son, who was going to a school where he was the only child with hearing loss.  She shares her realization that he needed a network of support from others – and that she needed one from other parents as well.

Joan Denney, who used free captioning software for the video from Overstream (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRmsZ25W3SE), told me that some of the teenagers at the camp did a lot of interviews with each other and with the parents.  Joan is the mother of a deaf child, and she hopes to release a longer version of the video soon.  She and her daughter have attended the camp for 12 years, and this year her daughter will be a counselor there.

Here’s the video of the DHH Family Camp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-R-LkFvUPk&feature=youtu.be

- Thanks to NVRC, Fairfax