The CCC Kids Camp is cancelled for Summer 2020 due to Covid-19. We are still offering virtual sessions including child and family sessions, parent and school education and training, and child groups.
The CCC Kids Camp is cancelled for Summer 2020 due to Covid-19. We are still offering virtual sessions including child and family sessions, parent and school education and training, and child groups.
The CCC Kids Camp is a summer camp intensive in the Washington DC area. Our seasoned co-directors offer over two decades of combined experience working with children with SM, have been trained by some of the world’s leading child treatment experts (Dr. Steven Kurtz, Dr. Sheila Eyberg) and most importantly, have experience and history running SM intensives and camps. We have worked hard to build our programming from the ground up, carefully refining program elements over time and grounding them in the evidence-based PCIT for SM protocol developed by Dr. Steven Kurtz.
Mon 8/10 | Tue 8/11 | Wed 8/12 | Thu 8/13 | Fri 8/14 |
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Child Group Track sessions | 1 hour | 1 hour | 1 hour | 1 hour | 1 hour |
Parent Education Track sessions | 1 hour | 1 hour | 1 hour | 1 hour | 1 hour |
Parent-Child Coaching Track sessions | 1 hour | 1 hour | 1 hour | 1 hour | 1 hour |
The CCC camp is based on the PCIT-SM approach developed by Dr. Steve Kurtz through which Brave Buddies was established. Our staff are extensively trained in utilizing this protocol for eliciting and encouraging speech and social interaction throughout the camp week.
“We are thrilled at the progress our 4-year-old son made at CCC camp. He went from not speaking above an occasional whisper for an entire year at preschool, to speaking and interacting normally the following year in pre-K, and this was in large part due to his week at camp. The supportive staff, one-on-one therapy, and activities designed to mimic a school day while remaining fun made such a difference for him and us. We would recommend this camp in a heartbeat.”
“My daughter is a completely different child after attending the camp this Summer. She is more Brave, Confident and is fully verbal with teachers and students this year in Kindergarten after going 3 years of preschool never speaking to anyone. She has given presentations in front of the class, eats with other students and goes to the bathroom at school all of which were problems for her previously. The camp helped to model for me as her mother ways to interact and talk with her to create the least amount of anxiety and how to encourage speech in different ways than I had tried previously. I have recommended this week-long camp to everyone I have talked to that has a child who suffers from Selective Mutism, it has changed my daughter’s and my family’s entire life!”
“My son attended the camp two times. He got a lot out of the camp the second time: he was able to do Show-and-Tell for the first time in his life during the camp! I was very happy and surprised about the tremendous progress he made in talking at the camp! The progress he made at the camp definitely transferred to his regular public school because after attending the camp, he was able to talk to the school nurse in words for the first time in his elementary school years. He liked the camp a lot because it was so much fun.”