Camp for Kids With Autism Offers Extreme Therapy

Consider what it does to the senses when you're in a kayak on the Colorado River and you hit white water. You can't hear anything but the water. There's spray in your face. Violent drops. Wicked turns. And fear -- moments when the river seems to be in control, not you. In short, it's total sensory overload, a total adrenaline rush.

-- it's overload times 20, or times 100. And that's the point: to take kids to their limits, and beyond.

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