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Camp Isola Bella American School for the Deaf
A Treasured Summertime Tradition: Camp Isola Bella
Camp Isola Bella has brought happiness and joy to countless campers over the past 46 years, and ASD is looking forward to the 2023 season!
The camp’s philosophy, “learning through experience,” is put into effect in three ways:
Self-esteem and a positive attitude come from having successful social experiences with peers and lots of friendly encouragement from the staff. We provide specific situations that are designed for each camper to set goals and challenge themselves while discovering their own skills and abilities. At the same time we provide opportunities that stimulate the development of each camper’s self esteem. Specific knowledge and skills are taught with a “learn by doing” approach.
Physical fitness is developed through sports and recreation programs, fostering campers’ emotional, physical and intellectual growth.
A wide range of activities are offered to provide appropriate challenges for the wide range of skills and interests campers bring to the island. Campers will keep up their skills and learn many new ones through our fun leadership and literacy activities that are woven throughout the program.
Owned and operated since its beginning by the American School for the Deaf, Camp Isola Bella follows the School’s American Sign Language/English Bilingual approach to communication, which incorporates American Sign Language, speech, reading, writing, and the use of assistive hearing technology. Staff are willing and able to meet campers where they are to provide the best summer camp experience for each child. This approach minimizes communication barriers so students and staff can focus on having fun and learning together.
Children of Deaf Adults (CODAs), as well as children with deaf siblings are also welcome to attend Camp Isola Bella!
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Registration Open
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Attention all camp enthusiasts – WE’RE HIRING!
The American School for the Deaf (ASD) is now hiring for our summer camp program, Camp Isola Bella. We are seeking passionate, dedicated and outgoing individuals who are excited about working with deaf and hard-of-hearing children.
As a counselor at ASD Summer Camp, you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse group of campers and make a lasting impact on their lives. You will be responsible for leading activities such as swimming, hiking, arts and crafts, and more.
You will also act as a role model and mentor to the campers, helping them to develop confidence and independence.
We are looking for candidates who are creative, patient, and have a positive attitude. Experience working with children is a plus, but not a requirement.
If you love working with children and have a desire to make a difference, we encourage you to apply for a position at ASDs Camp Isola Bella. It will be a rewarding experience that you will always remember.
To apply click below!
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Summer Internship Opportunity
Camp Counselor In Training
June 25, 2023 to July 7, 2023
Gain valuable experience working with deaf and hard of hearing children at beautiful Camp Isola Bella.
If you are interested or for more information, please contact
Daniel Girard, Camp Director
IBDirector@asd 1817.
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Time Available: M-F 8:15-4
We are also excited to announce that we have recently completed a renovation of the camp. With help from our generous alumni and donors we built two new cabins, an athletic complex, picnic areas, and completed many other upgrades which will allowed us to open up enrollment for more campers!
Video Description: Daniel sitting outside in the patio with a tall tree in the background and he is wearing yellow Camp Isola Bell staff t-shirt.
Video script: Hello, My name is Daniel Girard. Happy New Year! New Year, new opportunity. I’m thrilled to share that I’ve accepted the position as the Director for Camp Isola Bella. In 2004, I worked as the camp staff. (Showing my yellow 2004 Camp Isola Bella t-shirt). Almost 20 years later, I’m back at Camp Isola Bella as the camp Director. Going forward, I look forward to conducting interviews and hiring staff to create a champ team. We look forward to welcoming new and old campers to our beautiful island this summer 2023.
Be on the lookout for future information and announcements regarding Camp Isola Bella. (The video ended with Daniel waving)
Registration Opens 2/1/2023 7pm EST
Register Here
Youth Session
June 25, 2023 -July 7, 2023
Ages 8-12
Teen Session
July 16-July 28, 2023
Ages 13-17
Summer 2023 camp fee is $1,400
with a $100 non-refundable fee
to register your child.
Due to funding received from the State of Connecticut through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the American School for the Deaf is pleased to offer scholarships to interested deaf and hard of hearing students (grades K-12) to attend any deaf summer camp in the United States during the 2023 summer season (including ASD’s Camp Isola Bella). To be eligible for a scholarship, interested campers must be permanent residents of the State of Connecticut. The maximum scholarship award is $1,000.
Click Here to Apply
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Activities
- Swimming
- Rope Course
- Canoeing and Sailing
- Water Skiing
- Archery
- Overnight Camping
- Hiking
- Sports
- Cooperative games
- Arts and Crafts
- Special trips and projects
- Self Discovery Program
- Banquet Night / Dance
- Family Day
- Theme Days
Highly qualified, professional staff, both deaf and hearing, come to Isola Bella with experience in education, childcare and counseling.
A small staff-to-camper ratio ensures plenty of individual attention and high-quality programs. Excellent medical care and facilities are available 24 hours a day. Please note that campers with special needs, including medical conditions, will require prior medical approval for registration and enrollment purposes. Transportation of campers from the local airport, bus or train station is available upon request.
Contact Information
Camp Isola Bella
410 Twin Lakes Road
Salisbury, CT 06079
(860) 824-5558 (Voice) (860) 596-0110 (VP)
(860) 824-4276 (FAX)
Sending Letters and Packages (UPS and FED EX):
Camp Isola Bella
410 Twin Lakes Road
P.O. Box 7
Taconic, CT 06079
* Only available during camp sessions, other times please contact the school.
Camp Director
E-mail [email protected]
American School for the Deaf
139 North Main Street
West Hartford, CT 06107
(860) 570-2300 (Voice)
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DESIGNED WITH AGES 3-9 IN MIND! Children must be potty trained to attend. |
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Watch your child blossom over the course of the week as they make adorable friendships and become immersed in their camp theme! Whether it’s Princess Elsa or a Rainbow Unicorn, they’ll come home talking about all of the amazing things they did that day; especially when they MEET the princesses in person or have the opportunity to ride a live pony! It will leave them with memories they’ll cherish forever. And don’t worry moms – you’ll get to check out everything they’ve been working on in a show at the end of the week! They’ll feature the amazing costumes and scenery that have been kept top secret, and show you just how far they’ve come with their dances and their friends. These specialized camps developed for kids ages 3-9 are a perfect way to spend the summer!
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SUPERHERO ADVENTURE CAMP is flying to the rescue this summer! Dancers will spend the week learning what it takes to become a superhero and perform in a show that will make you feel all their superhero powers! They’ll be so excited to meet a real live superhero in person too! LEESBURG STUDIO BRAMBLETON STUDIO |
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MY BABY AND ME is the perfect place to bring your favorite dolly to learn to dance and be perfect little babysitters! Dancers will spend the week learning how to do all the fun things to take care of their babies, make them fun little toys and outfits and build new friendships, create adorable crafts, and prepare a special show. LEESBURG STUDIO BRAMBLETON STUDIO |
They will even be surprised with a new very sweet baby of their own to bring home with them!|
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CUPCAKE CUTIES CAMP is the most fun way to bake your way through the summer! Dancers will spend the week learning all about how to make fun treats and dance around the bakery in the dance studio and perform in a show that will make you feel the cupcake love! They’ll be excited to meet Strawberry Shortcake in person too! LEESBURG STUDIO BRAMBLETON STUDIO |
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RAINBOW UNICORN CAMP is the most fun way to trot and gallop through the summer! Dancers will spend the week learning all about their unicorn friends and perform in a show that will make you feel the wind through your hair as your ride! They’ll be so excited to meet our Unicorn in person too! LEESBURG STUDIO BRAMBLETON STUDIO |
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EVERYONE IS MAGIC CAMP is the most fun way to experience the magic of family! Dancers will spend the week learning all about what makes them unique and magic in their own way and perform in a show that will make you feel the family love! They’ll be so excited to meet Mirabel in person too! LEESBURG STUDIO BRAMBLETON STUDIO |
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Caucasian Knot | Tent camp “Bella” ceased to exist
Caucasian Knot | Tent camp “Bella” ceased to exist
October 01, 2003, 18:26
On October 1, the “Bella” tent camp located on the outskirts of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia ceased to exist de facto and de jure.
Today, the last two tents have been moved from the former TAP “Bella” to the neighboring town of Chechen refugees “Satsita”.
According to Akhmed Lyanov, commandant of the “Bella” camp, all the inhabitants of the town (more than 150 families) are currently accommodated, at their request, in TACs on the territory of Chechnya and Ingushetia.
“Each person individually decides where to live. All temporarily displaced persons leaving the Bella camp receive food debts in accordance with existing standards,” the acting director said in an interview with a local television correspondent. Ivan Nikolaevich Pomeshchenko, head of the UDM of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Ingushetia. At the same time, he recalled that the return of people takes place exclusively on a voluntary basis, and there were no complaints about the actions of the federal authorities and representatives of the Department of Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Ingushetia from the resettling citizens.
The Bella tent camp on the outskirts of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya was established in the autumn of 2001 and was considered one of the largest centers of compact residence of Chechen refugees in Ingushetia.
Initially, according to various sources, from 5 to 6 thousand temporarily displaced persons from the Chechen Republic lived here. There were two schools and two kindergartens on the territory of the camp.
Officially, the Bella temporary accommodation center ceased to exist on September 1 of the current year after the corresponding order of the Head of the FMS I. Yunash. However, the intervention of representatives of international humanitarian missions dealing with the problems of internally displaced persons in the territory of Ingushetia, as well as local human rights organizations, delayed the liquidation of the camp for some more time. After last Friday, by special order of the President of the Republic of Ingushetia Murat Magometovich Zyazikov, the gas supply was resumed in the camp, it seemed that the situation was completely resolved successfully.
However, from 29On September 30, attempts to disband the camp resumed, and on September 30, the leadership of the UDM RI announced the final closure of the camp.
Meanwhile, internally displaced persons complain that they have not yet been provided with normal living conditions in the new place – gas and electricity have not yet been supplied to the tents set up on the territory of the Satsita town.
According to local human rights activists, the action with the closure of the “Bella” camp is only the first step towards the forceful liquidation of the points of compact residence of Chechen refugees on the territory of the Republic of Ingushetia. On October 1, residents of the LogoVaz TAC in Nazran already applied to the office of the Chechen Committee of National Salvation, who, according to them, were informed by the Head of the regional migration service, A. Tomov, about the upcoming closure of this TAC.
Author: Malika Suleimanova, own correspondent of the “Caucasian Knot”
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11. 09.2017
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How a girl from Milan came to her native Caucasian village to make a creative camp for Nogai children there, who interfered with her, who helped and why it is important
– Ruslan, what do we have for tomorrow?
– We will make masks.
– What do you need for this?
– I don’t need anything, I have everything.
– Patya, how was jiu-jitsu?
– With little ones not very much, they do not concentrate and scatter.
– I suggest making lunch early tomorrow, otherwise the younger and middle ones do not reach 12:30.
— There was a failure with the Georgian lecture, of course, they do not accept slides and presentations, this is no longer possible.
– Tomorrow Masha will arrive and start doing theater with the children.
– We need to think about how best to distribute the theater into groups.
— Bel, eh Bel, where do we throw away plastic bottles?
– Batal, in the same place as everything else. Oh, it’s a pity, we don’t have separate waste collection in the village. Pat, let’s make an impromptu lecture about ecology with you? Let’s call her eco-Patya. Or an eco-party. And in general, I dream of making a big block about ecology. But that’s for next year.
– Bella the dreamer.
Bella
“I urgently need a bus, I urgently need a bus. I didn’t collect money from the world bit by bit to pay 21 thousand for a bus. It’s too much. We need to come up with something else.” Bella starts scrolling through contacts on her phone and thoughts in her head about who to ask for help with the bus. A night excursion to the observatory in Arkhyz is one of the points of the program of the children’s creative school “Balapanlar”, which was invented and organized by 28-year-old Bella Shakhmirza.
According to Bella, the suicide bomber who exploded at the Istanbul airport a year ago, according to one of the versions, was from Ikon-Hulk, a neighboring village: “He studied to be an auto mechanic, he seemed to be a normal guy, and then contacted these, said, that he went to Surgut, but in fact to Turkey.
The suicide bomber who exploded at the Istanbul airport a year ago, according to one version, was from Ikon-Khalk, a neighboring village
Ruslan traveled from Moscow on a ride for almost a day: “And I would have traveled the same amount, I love to travel.” But even more, he loves children. For almost twenty years, Ruslan has been working with children, teaching them how to draw, going to camps as a counselor in the summer, and doing a lot for orphans. Now she works in the “Workshop of Mama Carlo”, before that for many years – in the charitable foundation “Children of Mary”. He has a twin brother, and they both grew up in an orphanage. They never had a father, their mother drank, and until the age of three they were raised by their grandparents.
Then the strength and pensions were no longer enough, and the brothers were sent to an orphanage in the Moscow region.
“I remember that time as the happiest in my life,” says Ruslan. “We had a wonderful director who truly loved children. At the same time, I never thought that I would take care of children myself. Only after the army I accidentally came to visit the boss, and his children hung on me so much that everyone around said with one voice that I was a born educator. And I myself suddenly felt so natural and good with them.”
“Rus, and a sticker for me!” – “Ruslan, is my mask beautiful?” – “Rus, when will we start painting the wall?” – “Rusik, look how I made a juggling ball out of rice!” Children stick to tall Ruslan, and he manages to answer them all, and it seems to everyone that he is his best friend. “I don’t know what I would do without you, Rus,” Bella tells him every day.
“Have you seen my backpack?” – almost crying, asks Arthur, or Aturiki, as everyone calls him.
Aturiki is one of Bella’s nephews, he lives with his mother in Stavropol without a father. He came to his native village for the summer. Aturiki is reserved, gets tired of a large number of people, likes to go into a corner and never part with his red backpack. Nobody knows what he wears in it. “I didn’t see it, but let’s go look. You have to ask Ruslan, he probably knows.”
“I have a bunch of active boys and a few very obedient girls in my group. Farida is a wonderful gymnast, she always takes my hand and asks: “ Well, how do I do my exercises, okay? Aisha is smart, obviously an excellent student and wants to become the president of Russia. And I am generally delighted with Astemir. This is Batal’s street friend, he is nine years old, he is four heads taller than his peers. Smart, insightful, but just as restless. On the first day, he was silent and shy, but now every day he opens up more and more, and guitar lessons simply transformed him. I think he has talent.
The only one who doesn’t fit in there is Denis. I will think about what to do with him,” says Patya.
Pati’s full name is Patimat. She is an Avar, born in the Dagestan mountain village of Tlyarosh, then moved with her mother to Makhachkala, and graduated from the last grades of school in Moscow – she persuaded her to let her live with her relatives. In Moscow, she studied at the Academy of Foreign Trade, worked in large companies, was engaged in logistics, and then went to study in Italy. Graduated from the Master’s program in non-commercial project management and conflictology. While I was studying, I worked there, among other things, in children’s camps. When Bella told her about her idea, she decided to come help without hesitation.
She got the middle group, seven to nine years old. Every evening Patya says that she is like a squeezed lemon, but the children are a delight. “Patya, how old are you”? Batal asks. “What do you think?” – “52”. “How you flatter me, dear! I’ll probably go to sleep,” and Patya takes a book about neural networks and goes to his room.
“What did I say? Does she need more?!” Batal looks around in surprise at the adults in the kitchen. “With such an ability to make compliments, you will be successful with girls, I can see directly,” Bella laughs.
But not everyone in the village supports Bella. Not everyone likes her secularism, life in Milan and the desire to change the lives of children in the village. “On the second day of work “ Balapanlara ” the deputy head of the Nogai district arrived with the words “ What are you up to here and who allowed ”, ,” says Bella. – And after half an hour, people appeared who introduced themselves as FSB officers, and they say, they say, we learned that you have foreigners here. Fortunately, there were no foreigners among us, and they left. I know that a lot of people don’t like me here, but that won’t stop me.”
“On the second day, the deputy head of the Nogai district arrived with the words “what are you up to here and who allowed it””
“Have you ever been called names?” Anzor asks Liza a question.
Anzor has a speech impediment, and it is difficult to understand him the first time. “Yes, of course, and I was upset. We must rely on the support of relatives and not be angry at others, even if they are wrong. “Did you immediately set yourself the goal of achieving everything?” Anzor continues. “It is better not to set yourself great goals at once, but to move step by step. Gradually, overcoming their complexes one by one. Every little success gave me the strength to keep going. So believe – and you will succeed.”
It is difficult for Anzor to speak, but, unlike in a regular school, here they listen to him and try to understand him. “Anzor, dear, come on, now slowly and clearly try to repeat every word to me,” Masha tells him. Anzor tries and from the third time says almost clearly: “And this monster, like a wolf, flew in and killed the sheep every night.” “Great! What you need! The monster will be very useful to us!” Masha rejoices.
Masha
– She ran into the room and saw an old closet!
– Okay, next one.