by KYW's John Ostapkovich
The term "summer camp" has many meanings, but for kids in a pilot program for treating autism it could mean life-changing progress.
Camp Kids Space, in Bristol Township's Harry S Truman High School, hosts a half-dozen students, mostly boys, with a similar number of staffers.
Jane Melchiondo is classroom maestro for Dr. Stanley Greenspan's DIR/Floortime approach to treating autism. She says most programs stress skills development:
"We work on skills also, but we work on the core deficits that a child has missed, so we're really, really working with interacting with children -- because we feel this is what has been disrupted in early development."
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