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Strategies: Collaborate with SMCISDtop rovide over3000 hours service to the San Marcos community to improve the <br />quality of life for chi Idren with autism and the irfamiIies. <br />Goalsforthe program: We would like to expand our program to include more children with autism to attend our <br />summer camp with scholarship support. Our request for funding is to provide 20 low-income famiIieswith camp <br />scholarships to meet family basic needs of child care during part of the summer and to purchase camp equipment. <br />Through this camp, 20 low-income and underserved San Marcos children with autism will participate in our <br />program at no cost. Each family will receive a scholarship to defray the high cost of child care during the summer <br />and the funds will also be used to purchase camp equipment. Twenty-five children with autism from low income <br />families attend 2 weeks of camps is equivalent of 50 hours of one on one skill -based instruction (e.g., adapted <br />aquatic swimming, yoga, dance, and other social, communication and physical activities) for 2 -week period. <br />Parents will receive information about other community-based resources to assist children as well. More children <br />attending our camp indicates that more counselors are needed since our camp is 1:1. Therefore, we will use funds <br />to recruit more camp counselors to work with children 1:1 from other funding source. <br />Howwill they knowthey metthese goals: We will meetourgoal bygivingouttwenty$100 scholarshipsto San Marcos <br />children with autismtoattend ourcamp, use fundsto purchase camp equipment, and hire camp counselorsto better <br />service children with autism at 1:1 ratio. <br />Numberof clients served yearly: 65 Number of direct clients served ONLY in San Marcos: 50 <br />Amount Requested: $5,000 Commission on Children and Youth Recommendation: $4,000 <br />Texas State Universitv <br />Caminitos Collaborative —This program will be centered on engaging4and 5 year old preschool children who are <br />lackinginfine motor ski lls in a maste ry motivational climate (MMC). The chi ldrenwill be pre and post tested using <br />Movement ABC. AcurriculumwiII be developed based on pretest outcomes usinga MMC. Research has shown that <br />utilization of a MMC, allows children to have both control overtheir learning as well as develop confidence in weak <br />areas by allowingthem to choose where they need the majority of the work. There will be a control group that will be <br />tested against the intervention group to decide if the MMC was successful. This yearthe program will expand to include <br />2 intervention groups and 2 control groups. <br />How they will measure program success: Success wiII be defined as children gainingfine motorskills at a faster rate <br />when compared to previous years as well as MMC being incorporated into classrooms at Bonham Prekindergarten. <br />Measurement will be gained through use of the Movement ABC (quantitative) and the qualitative data assessed from <br />the observations. In addition, positive comments from faculty on the achievements of children through frequent "check <br />ins" will also be a measure of success. Because of the data collected in yearone, we can show the benefits and the ease <br />of using MMC. At the afterschool in-service, the goal isforteachersto see the benefits and vol unteertheirclasses for <br />the nextyearof data collection. <br />Priority Areas that this program will fulfill: Goal 1: Strategies land 2- This program will continue and strengthen the <br />relationship between Texas State and Bonham Prekindergarten. Oncethe data iscollected, the program coordinatorwill <br />share the findings with teachers and administration to hopefully strengthen the need for MMC in early childhood. By <br />showingthedatathatMMC can provide where fine motorcontrol is concerned, this should prompt more teachers to <br />use this in theirclassrooms when compared to more traditional methods offine motor instruction. <br />Goal 2: Strategy 2 This program will assessthe activities of childrenthat will be a precursorthe future progression of <br />otherskills. This program will give information on two areas; deficiency in fine motorskills and does MMC in early <br />childhood workwhere fine motorskills are concerned <br />Goalsforthe program: The goalsforthe 2019-2020 yearwould be as follows: quantitative change infinemotor <br />measuresfrom pre to posttesting; children show qualitative changestoward fine motor behaviors bywayof attitudinal <br />changes in and out ofthe classroom; and teachers at Bonham Prekindergarten incorporate MMC intoclassrooms into a <br />