BOOST CAMP activities address gross and fine motor, self-help and communication skills with an emphasis on success. A typical day includes such tasks as:

- crawling
- independent sitting
- standing
- taking steps
- using hands to climb up and down a ladder frame or grasp utensils
- eating, dressing, toileting and other life skills
- speech refinement

Personal aides, parents and volunteers provide physical and verbal guidance to help each child initiate and control movements, following the lead of the Conductive Education teacher who is a highly trained movement specialist. The teacher works like the nervous system itself, showing students where they can go then helping them to make the leap by taking a dynamic hands-on approach, physically guiding the children through movement until they can do it themselves. Gradually their injured nervous systems are re-educated.

BOOST CAMP is intense, lively and motivating! Children look forward to the group involvement and stimulation and, after the initial shock of being asked to do things they've never been asked to do before, learn to welcome new challenges.

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BOOST CAMP builds success for children with motor disabilities.