Kahmiil M.
Google
My first interaction was asking them if they accept kids who are autistic and I was told yes. When I applied in person the website application I did was not properly transferred over and someone working at the desk had to manually enter everything in. I told her that my son was autistic and he would be joined by his cousin, who is also autistic. I asked them to keep him and his cousin together because they deescalate each other in unknown (or new) environments well. She did not add this into their site. Staff told me they would not keep them together because they were not required to even though on their site they have a “buddy” option to keep kids together.
On the first day, it was two ladies at a table when you walk in. I told her again that my son and his cousin were autistic and was assured that they had “over 30 years with kids through SBCSC”. They assured me they were trained and able to work with ALL kids.
They never gave parents a schedule and took kids to the zoo without notifying their parents when they would leave or come back. They had 7(ish) parents waiting (about 2hrs) in the lobby for their kids and they were never notified that they would be leaving the premises.
Camp started 6/9 and as of 6/17 when I took my son out I still hadn’t gotten a daily schedule after multiple times asking.
My son had a tantrum over something small. Instead of the adult intervening, she left it to a youth volunteer to handle and yelled at my son and he thought he was getting in trouble and had a meltdown. She removed him from the room and then put him in a hold. My son’s response was to defend himself and he did physically defend himself from a lady he had known all but a week who put her hands on him.
I responded by buying muffins for the whole staff as well as making my son use his own money for treat bags for the lady who he defended himself against. *When I gave them to him I expressed that he had been wrong but also that they had been wrong by putting their hands on him.* I requested that they don’t do it again.
The very next day I was told (by my son) that he was put into another hold and a kid hit him. I tried to ask an adult but got nowhere as they were busy.
I’m not happy with my son feeling like he had to defend himself against a grown woman and then treating my like I’m asking for special favors for not doing restraints
At the end of the day, if you say you accept ALL kids but really only mean neurotypical kids that should be specified especially when a parent has disclosed multiple times the children are autistic.
