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Camp Abilities...a place where blind and visually impaired children and teens can discover how believing that they can achieve can actually help them to achieve their goals and to overcome their disability. - Logan Merrill, Site Administrator Camp Abilities Brockport is a one-week developmental sports camp for children and teens who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, and deafblind. The camp is set up to provide a one-on-one instructional situation for each person, which is often on the contrary to other camps designed for people with vision and hearing disabilities. Camp Abilities Brockport, located on the beautiful, resourceful campus of the University of Brockport in SUNY Brockport, New York, is a sports and recreation camp that provides instruction in activities such as swimming, gymnastics, track and field, and a few specialized activities specifically designed for people with vision and hearing disabilities. The following information has been downloaded directly from the official Camp Abilities Brockport Website. Our counselors are pooled from physical education and special education undergraduate and graduate programs across the U.S., and overseas. Since our first summer we have had more than 90 counselors per summer, and we have trained more than 800 future teachers in the area of sport and recreation for children with sensory impairments. Many of our specialists are blind themselves, and serve as excellent role models for our children, some of whom have never met or socially interacted with another person who is blind. In its fourteenth year, Camp Abilities Brockport, held at the campus of The College at Brockport, offers a one-week, comprehensive, developmental sports camp for children between the ages of 9 to 19 who are visually impaired, blind, or deafblind. The camp provides a 1:1 instructional situation for each child. Since our first year, we have served more than 50 children a year with visual impairments. They vary in socioeconomic status, ethnic background and level of skills and abilities.
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