Kids with disabilities have their own summer camps

From ABC News:
Because summer camps traditionally don’t serve kids with disabilities, specialty camps designed specifically for them are cropping up around the country.

“Summer camp is just part of Americana, and if you’ve got children with particular special needs it’s just very difficult for them to readily fit into a mainstream setting,” said Sean Nienow, the director of the National Camp Association. “Camps are set up with a lot of physical activity and are not set up to cater special needs.”

ABC profiles some specialty camps:
Camp Twitch and Shout (outside Atlanta) for children with Tourette’s syndrome;
Adventure Amputee Camp (Bryson, N.C.) for children with amputations;
Cap I-Thonka-Chi (Meridian, TX) for children with traumatic burns;
Camp Sunshine (outside Atlanta) for children with cancer;
Camp Heartland (Minneapolis) for children who are infected with HIV/AIDs or have family members who are; and
Camp Celiac (North Scituate, R.I.) for children with celiac disease.
… One boy at the Adventure Amputee Camp spoke for all the special needs campers when he was asked what he liked best about camp: “No one is staring, asking what’s wrong with you or criticizing your faults.”

See also:
‘At Camp Twitch and Shout, Tourette kids can be themselves’ — CNN