• School-age sessions for Deaf and Learning Disabilities serve children ages 7-17 years old
• School-age sessions for Orthopedically Challenged, Multi-Challenged, and intellectually challenged serve children ages 7-21 years old
• Adult sessions are for individuals 22 years and older.
  • • Campers can come regardless of age, as long as the doctor will sign
      off that they are healthy enough for the elevation of camp (7,000 feet) and
      participate in camp activities.

Multi-Challenged Weeks
These weeks are for individuals that have both intellectual and orthopedic (physical) disabilities. This can be due to one condition (i.e. Angelman syndrome, traumatic brain injuries, etc.) or multiple coexisting disabilities, (i.e. visual impairment coexisting with ASD 1).

Intellectually Challenged Weeks
​These weeks serve anyone diagnosed with an intellectual disability or any disabilities that affect cognitive development. (i.e. Down syndrome, ASD 1, fragile-x syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, etc).​

Orthopedically Challenged Weeks
These weeks are for individuals diagnosed with any physical disability that affects their mobility. (i.e. spina bifida, visual impairment, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, amputations, paraplegia/quadriplegia, etc).​

Deaf Week
This week serves children who have a hearing impairment. (i.e. profoundly deaf, hard of hearing, etc.).

Learning Disabled Week
This week is for children with learning disabilities who have educational IEP’s. (i.e. dyslexia, ASD 1, ADHD, ADD, OCD, or sensory/auditory/language processing disorders, etc.).

We modify for nut allergies and can accommodate dairy and cheese allergies, etc. If your camper has more than three of these allergies, you will need to bring your own meals: milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts/peanuts, or soy. If your camper is gluten-free, you will have to bring your own meals. Our staff is able to store meals in fridge or freezer and prepare these for your camper at each meal, so long as you provide the food.

We have two registered nurses on site to aid in medical procedures. Staff is trained and prepared to aid campers in disposable underwear (diapers), colostomy bags, catheters, maces, g-tubes, seizure disorders, communication devices and more.

**If your camper has a need not listed please email pam@camptatiyee.org to inquire about it.**
(communication is key so please bring communication devices!)

Common tools seen at camp are electric wheelchairs, manual wheelchairs, walkers, canes, AFO’s, and more! (If your camper have an electric wheelchair it is highly encouraged to bring!)

Campers must have a mental age of 3 or older.

• • • They must be able to communicate whether it be verbal, through sign language, or with a communication board, they must have a consistent form of communication.
    • We do not accept anyone who is physically aggressive.
    • We do not take campers who have psychiatric issues beyond what was previously listed above.

There is no fee for attending Lions Camp Tatiyee. If you can donate please do, we are eligible for the charitable tax credit which can be a great way to help us. We have never charged a fee in the entire time we have been serving campers.

• • We are located in Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona, in the beautiful, cool White Mountains. Our address is 5283 West White Mountain Blvd, Lakeside, AZ 85929.

You are responsible for bringing your camper between 1-3pm on the Sunday of their week. Why do we do this?

• • • • So your camper is comfortable and you can meet the staff!
      • We want to learn from you! Our staff will want to ask clarifying questions and in some instances have you show them examples of specific care needs.
      • We want to develop a line of communication and a relationship with our camper families.

We recommend by first watching our documentary “Just Like Us” on the homepage of our website. This will help you understand what Camp Tatiyee has to offer your child. Then go to the camper tab and start your application. Most of our application is on- line but there are two forms you must print and scan in. Those two forms are:

• ​The physician’s exam form (this must be filled out by the campers doctor)
• The Potential Camper form (this is filled out by the teacher, or lead of a day program if applicable)

From there the application will go under review. Your camper is officially accepted when you receive a reservation form!

Applications are on-line on our website from January until several weeks before the session. Applications may close for sessions once they are full, but this will be indicated on our website. 

We hire two full-time R.N.’s who live on site all summer. We are also minutes from the nearest hospital.

We collect immunization information, but will also accept immunization exemptions.

​To prevent injury to our staff, we have a weight limit max of 300 pounds.

Our staff is selected from various Arizona Universities and colleges. We intentionally seek out those students studying to enter human service fields such as Nursing, pre-med, physical therapy, occupational therapy, recreational therapy, special education, general education, psychology, speech therapy etc.

We hire 1-2 High School Students as counselors in training. These are individuals who want to enter human service fields and show great maturity. This helps us to maintain a high return rate among our staff and comforts our families when they see the same counselors year after year.

Our staff to camper ratio depends on the session your camper attends.

During most weeks when we have campers needing more involved care, our ratio can be 1 staff to 1 camper if they are new or if their care requires that. It may go up to 1 staff for 2 or 3 campers but not beyond that.

Exclusively Deaf week & Learning Disabilities week:
We may be as high as 1 staff to 5 campers due to high levels of independence in self care and mobility.