Eureka Outdoor Camp is unique in B.C. Our program is specifically for children and adolescents with INVISIBLE DISABILITIES. This is a term commonly used to describe a range of disorders that are neurologically based and not readily apparent. Generally, the disabilities do not affect the child's intelligence. In fact, many children with invisible disabilities are gifted.

Invisible disabilities include:
•  Learning disabilities
•  ADD/ ADHD
•  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
•  Mild Autism/Aspergers Syndrome
•  Tourettes Syndrome
•  Oppositional Defiance Disorder
•  Epilepsy

Most of the disabilities are present from birth, but can be caused by other trauma such as head injury. All of the disabilities can be made worse by the environment in which the child is living.

Up to 10% of the school population is affected by one, or a combination of the disabilities listed. Three times as many boys as girls are diagnosed. The most common combination of disabilities we see an Eureka Outdoor Camp are Learning Disabilities / ADD / ADDHD, ADHD/OCD, ADHD,ODD. Other combinations are not unusual. Unfortunately medications to support the symptoms of ADHD can sometimes make the symptoms of a combined disability worse, particularly Tourette Syndrome.