Wheelchair Camp

My family and I are going to Disneyland for Christmas this year. I'm not taking my 17 year old son because he's in a wheelchair. I don't think there would be anything for wheelchair people at Disney so I want to at least put him in some kind of a fun wheelchair camp like "Handi-Camp" or "Rolling FUNder." It's the least I can do because he really wants to go to Disney. Has anyone ever sent their wheelchair kids to a camp like this? Did have an OK time?

take him somewhere downhill from your house.
that way you dont have to go out of your way to take him there, he really just has to be pointed in the right direction.

and im pretty sure after all that fun, he wont mind wheeling himself back up the hill... and i think that people in wheelchairs have very short memories, so its not like he's going to stay angry for long.

2006-11-13 09:01:58 by Dialup, Avatar, Jones!?

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There is a very popular small mountain near the city I live. The easy trail to the top is very wide and flat in most places and would easily be wheelchair accessible. There are some parts that would need work but I think it might be a good project. I worked at a summer camp for kids with special needs this summer and this mountain is very close to the camp. It would be amazing if someday the kids here could climb a mountain. I just don't know how to go about doing this. Any ideas?

First you need to contact whomever owns the property. Talk with them perhaps you could get something going as a community improvement project.

2009-08-14 10:45:47 by radair906

It was a movie where some kids goes to summer camp and an alien child is sent by his parents also. There's a scene in the beginin where the bus driver is racing against a man on a wheelchair. I used to watch this movie long time ago and me and my friend where talking abaut it but we don't remember the name. Can someone remember it?

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The second in-name-only sequel to the first Meatballs summer camp movie sets us at Camp Sasquash where the owner Giddy tries to keep his camp open after it's threatened with foreclosure after Hershey, the militant owner of Camp Patton located just across the lake, wants to buy the entire lake area to expand Camp Patton. Giddy suggests settling the issue with the traditional end-of-the-summer boxing match over rights to the lake. Meanwhile, a tough, inner city punk, nicknamed Flash, is at Camp Sasquash for community service as a counselor-in-training where he sets his sights on the naive and intellectual Cheryl, while Flash's young charges befriend an alien, whom they name Meathead, also staying at the camp for the summer. Written by Matthew Patay

2009-07-16 06:00:06 by Dark-man

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i need to have one for the camp i am going to and i don't have one. can someone lend a hand.

You are in luck. Have a look at this article on wheelchair rentals. Towards the bottom is a list of places in various countries where wheelchairs can be rented. B.C is listed there:

2008-01-01 20:19:09 by michelle h

Last night me, my husband and 2 kids (7 and 3) went out to dinner. We had to wait in line to get in so we were just standing around talking. My daughter was telling me a story (she was talking quietly - her "restaurant" voice as I call it)about one of her friends from camp got sick and threw up all over a bus they were on and how some kids were making fun of him. I said a few things to her about like - "that's sad and it's not nice to make fun of people when they are sick", etc....
Just then I looked up and saw a young man (about 30) in a wheelchair just staring at me. I think he may of thought we were talking about him. I really felt horrible about it and wanted to say something - but that just would of been weird.

Anything you would of done?? Or do I just chalk it up to an uncomfortable experience? It's been bothering me all day. Thank you.

well maybe he just thought you were hot..

your screenname seems to "hint" at it..lol

i think you should just forget it, i know it isnt easy, and you probably feel real bad, but trying to explain it to him would have been way weird, and extremely difficult.

YOU know you werent talking about him , so that at least, should give you some peace in the matter.

if he did take it the way you think he took it... i feel bad too, and i wasnt there, its just people in wheelchairs or any disability, just get to me..

its a bad hand they were dealt and they have to live with...i feel so lucky at times, almost guilty

2007-06-14 16:47:38 by hotmomma