AutismUp is a Rochester-area nonprofit serving people with autism and their families. Its summer offering is a social skills program run in partnership with the Greater Rochester YMCA, in which children with ASD ages 4-15 join regular YMCA day camp activities while supported by trained AutismUp support coaches. Sessions are two weeks long and run July 11 through August 20 at Camp Bay View in Webster and Camp Arrowhead in Pittsford, with half-day and full-day options. AutismUp also runs year-round classes and programs for its members.
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We list only what the camp itself publishes, and programs change — dates, prices, ages and availability can all move after we check. Confirm the details on the camp’s own website and contact AutismUp directly before you register or pay. Last checked August 2026.
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★★★★★Jenny PaxsonStaff are wonderful. I am so glad we have this for the community. They do a lot for my kids.
★★★★★jessica parkerBefore Autism up, our son who is 26, Autistic and Epileptic, was a young man of few words. It's not that he couldn't use them but putting them together was tough. He has spent 1.5 sessions (about 14 weeks or so) taking 6 classes a week, attending classes he picked out himself. He has been going to another Day Program daily; however, he was at a standstill there. He came home for the first time in years with a cut out Turkey with feathers that had all of the things he was thankful for. Each thing actually represented something. Those things were "friends" something he never opened to in the past some of his program. etc That being said. The staff all have been great and have gotten to know him and us well and guided us in the direction they saw our guy veering towards. Resources, tools. I wish I had found them sooner since we moved here in 2017
★Jessica ExtaleI wish I could give it no stars because my husband have been taking my children there for about three years out of nowhere they acute they called our cam manager and said they suspected abuse told her there were fingerprint and handprint bruises so please had to come to my home inspect my daughters lift their dress to look at their legs and look at their arms My daughters were horrified as there were two strange male officers asking them to do this then I called them because the officers agreed they were no fingerprint or handprint bruises and they lied to me told me they didn’t know my care manager was a mandated reporter when they did she told them that and I mean we felt betrayed. Our son is autistic our daughter is autistic. This is supposed to be a place place that is safe for autistic children and their families and all I can say is wow these two or three girls who don’t have any children of their own Decided to make a judgment like that when the only handprint my child might’ve had was from her sister, not an adult mind you I am talking about a six-year-old and a four-year-old we immediately pulled our children out and will never be returning again because I no longer can feel safe there.
★★★★★Lee DrakeIf you are a parent in need of advocacy, or assistance Autism Up is there for you. Help your kids enhance their super power.
★★★★★Petrina YueAutismUp provides support services for individuals with autism spectrum disorders and their families. They offer a judgment free zone in a world full of judgment. Their multi sensory learning environment is one of a kind!