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The following post was written by Emily Ladau and originally ran on Words I Wheel By. One of my favorite things about writing on disability is that it ignites conversations and sparks perspective [...]

The songs have changed. The dance moves are different. I guess you could say an awful lot has changed in these last ten years of Camp Yofi at Ramah Darom. It’s hard to remember what it was like [...]

As preparations for a new school year are well under way, it is more important than ever to help our schools and our teachers and our communities find ways to celebrate each and every child. The [...]

The following post, written by Meredith Polsky, originally ran on the New Normal Blog. If you have been following The New Normal, or mainstream media, or even happened to do a web search on July [...]

At the end of May, I attended the National Ramah Spring Staff Training Institute at Camp Ramah in New England as a representative of Ramah Day Camp in Nyack. I participated in a specialized [...]

This article originally ran in the NY Jewish Week’s New Normal Blog. If you are anything like me, you eagerly await the summer months to finally make a sizable dent in that pile of books [...]

It is the first day of camp and one of my campers is already totally overwhelmed. My co-counselor tells me to go sit with him. It is my first day on the job and my first summer as a counselor in [...]

Written by Shira Hochheimer, a version of this post appeared on the blog of Yeshiva University and the author’s personal blog, Chinuch ENERGY! As a child, I was fortunate to attend a day [...]

When I first began working in the Tikvah Program at Camp Ramah in New England in 1984, all of the counselors came to Tikvah from OUTSIDE of Ramah. My co-counselor, for example, was studying [...]

According to the National Center for Learning Disabilities, “Dyslexia is the name for specific learning disabilities in reading… Children and adults with dyslexia simply have a neurological [...]