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Deaf/Hearing Impaired

Programs and camps in the Rochester, NY area for kids who are deaf or hearing impaired.

(If you belong to a camp organization and wish to submit a camp listing, please see the examples below and email your entry to suggestions@kidsoutandabout.com.)

Rochester School for the Deaf (RSD)
Rochester After School Academy (RASA)
585-544-1240 Voice/TTY
1545 St. Paul Street
Rochester, NY 14621
Contact: Corey Gember at CGember@rsdeaf.org General email: info@rsdeaf.org

4th Annual RASA@RSD Leadership Development Camp (LDC)
August 18-22, 2008

The annual RASA Leadership Development Camp RSD is a 5-day summer program for deaf and hard of hearing students in Monroe County. The objective of the program is to provide 4th through 8th grade students with hearing loss opportunities to develop and strengthen their leadership skills, foster self-reliance, and increase self-confidence through a variety of intellectually challenging and team building activities. RASA@RSD LDC camp schedule provides a week of fun-filled activities, which include a day field trip to RIT/National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Lunch is provided daily. Enrollment limited to 30 students. Registration is only $50. Register by early August.

 

Explore Your Future Camp for Juniors
NTID Explore Your Future Program, 52 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5604, (585) 475-6700 (V/TTY). EYFinfo@rit.edu.
High school juniors can attend Explore Your Future, a six-day, career awareness program that gives them the opportunity to experience college life and perform hands-on activities as they get a taste of real world careers within the business, computer, engineering, science and art fields at Rochester Institute of Technology this summer.

 

TechGirlz
NTID Explore Your Future Program, 52 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5604, 585-475-6723 (voice/TTY). techgirlz@ntid.rit.edu.
Science or technology-minded girls who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and entering 8th grade will enjoy Tech Girlz, a week-long summer camp from July 30 – August 5, 2006 at RIT. Girls who are interested in careers in science, technology, engineering and math, will build their own computers, investigate “crime scenes,” use high-tech lab equipment to solve problems, stay in RIT college residence halls and have fun!

 

Camp Mark Seven
Dave Staehle, Executive Director. ExecDir@CampMark7.org
Sept-May: Camp Mark Seven, 69 Stuyvesant Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. 585/381-5930 TTY/Fax.
Jun-Aug: 144 Mohawk Hotel Road, Old Forge, NY 13420. 315/357-6089 TTY/V, 315/357-6403 FAX.
For voice calls, call the SPRINT National Relay at (800) 877-8973 and give them the camp's phone number.

Camp Mark Seven is a lakefront recreational, educational & leadership camp in the Adirondack Mountains in Old Forge, New York. Diverse programs are offered for Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing & hearing individuals of all ages.

 

Language Camps
Writers & Books
740 University Avenue, Rochester NY 14607
(585) 473-2590, x107.
August 7 through August 11, 2006. Week-long intensive morning classes in American Sign Language (July 17 to 21) and Spanish (August 21 to 25, 2006). Languages taught through the arts.