By Tami Krispin | CEO
Summer is a difficult time for families of children with special needs. While the break in schedule is challenging for all families, the situation is ten times more complex for special families.
It is difficult to find appropriate day-camps, and while some special education frameworks continue to operate over the summer, they do so on an abridged schedule, reducing services and ending early. As a result, parents are forced to take numerous vacation days, adding to the days they already miss during the year, in order to care for their children. At the same time, in the absence of the school’s regular paramedical treatments many children regress in the summer months.
To help parents deal with these difficulties, Kesher has spent the past three months researching accessible summer activities and sending this information to our mailing list of 50,000+ families. This year, we have taken our work one step further, joining the struggle (led by parents and organizations serving children with special needs) to convince the Ministry of Education to offer summer programming for children with special needs. While this struggle will not impact 2015, the Ministry has promised to change its behavior and offer a proper solution for future summers.
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