[nabs-l] summer camp jobs

[Ashley Bramlett]

Minh,
thanks. Which overnight camp for blind kids was this at?
You're right there's thousands of camps in general.
I got the sense that he might feel more comfortable at a blindness camp 
though. We both know the concerns a sighted director will have about 
employing a blind counselor.

I'll ask him if he may feel up to trying to teach music to sighted kids. 
Chris makes an excellent point that there are a lot of options for general 
music camps in the MD and DC area.

In your experience with the sighted kids, how did you handle them? How did 
you know who was in the room? Having a handful of kids moving about may be 
challenging; to me many little voices sound the same.
How did you know what they were doing especially for arts and crafts 
projects? Something like  singing would not pose much challenge, nor would 
stories around the camp fire; its auditory.
Were you working at a general day camp? How long were the hours?
May I ask how old you were when working at the camps?

I'm glad to know it worked out for you. Some employers are open minded and 
give us a chance. Many college students work at summer camps; so I agree it’s 
a good job.

Ashley
-----Original Message----- 
From: minh ha
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2014 10:39 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] summer camp jobs

Ashley,

Are you and your friend only looking into counselor positions at blind
camps because there are thousands and thousands of summer camp
programs out there that you could work at. I've worked at both a day
camp for kids ages 7-13 and an overnight camp for only visually
impaired children in the same age range. Both of my experiences were
extremely positive; I had a lot of fun working with the kids, doing
arts and crafts projects, writing skits and songs, participating in
the usual summery physical activities. If you like working with kids,
then it's definitely an excellent job to look into. It can get pretty
exhausting though, especially the overnight camps as you are
responsible for rambunctious children 24/7. Many non profits also host
their own summer programs targeting specific groups of underprivileged
youth, so you could start by doing a search for non profits in your
area dedicated to doing this kind of work. I personally use and love
idealist.org. If you're into sports, there's a pretty popular camp I
believe called Camp Abilities that teach kids adaptive sports. I
honestly don't know any music camps geared towards blind children, but
your friend could just do a general google search on summer music
camps; he could always teach music theory and jazz to sighted
students. Hope this helps.

Minh

On 3/8/14, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My friend, Andrew, who is a blind student studying jazz in a conservatory 
> is
> looking for a summer job. He wants to play music for people and / or help
> blind kids learn about music whether its theory or braille music. He could
> also teach assistive technology somewhere.
>
> I've considered being a camp counselor too.
>
> Any music camps or enrichment camps you  all can recommend? It would be 
> nice
> if it were on the east coast so its not so far away.
> I thought there was a camp in NY; a music camp used to run at overbrook
> school for the blind but I think I read its not running this year.
>
>
>
> If any of you have had positive experiences being a camp counselor, would
> like to hear about that.
>
> Ashley
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