Special needs Archives - Scouting magazine

How to help youth with special needs get the most out of Scouting

There’s room for everyone in Scouting, especially Scouts with special needs.

Ideas for encouraging the success of Scouts with autism

Good advice for encouraging Scouts with Asperger’s or autism to succeed and thrive in Scouting.

Here's to Your Health

A weekend’s variation on the traditional camporee educates New York Scouts about challenges faced by people dealing with disabilities and disease.

Where Riding Works Wonders

Members of a Maryland special-needs Venturing crew sample a remarkably effective program known as ‘therapeutic horseback riding.’

Seeing Beyond Disabilities

A special camporee lets Scouts personally experience the impact of different physical handicaps and also realize that such limitations need not keep a person from living a full life.

A Special Scout

Tourette syndrome, a widely misunderstood disorder, has not kept Ryan Farrell from succeeding in Scouting and writing a book to explain the condition to others.