Camp Pegasus: Homeschool Edition
The Camp Pegasus Experience—Now All Year Long
Some children learn best in a homeschool environment. They deserve a social community designed just for them.
Camp Pegasus: Homeschool Edition…
…brings the warmth, acceptance, and proven therapeutic model of Camp Pegasus into a year-round program that meets weekly during the school day - for homeschooled neurodivergent children and teens ages 6–14.
Since 2009, Camp Pegasus has helped over a thousand of children discover something every child deserves—the joy of belonging, the confidence that comes from genuine friendships, and the opportunity to grow in a community where they are loved, accepted, and celebrated for who they are.
Meeting one afternoon each week at our Plymouth Meeting office, Camp Pegasus: Homeschool Edition combines therapeutic support, creative expression, guided play, and intentional social learning into an experience children genuinely look forward to attending.
The Camp Pegasus Magic™
Four Ingredients That Help Friendships Flourish:
At Camp Pegasus, we believe social growth cannot be forced. It develops naturally when children are immersed in the right environment.
That's why every Camp Pegasus session is intentionally built around The Camp Pegasus Method™—our four essential ingredients for healthy social development.
Together, these four ingredients create a community where friendships can grow naturally while children build confidence, resilience, communication skills, and a stronger understanding of themselves and others.
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Ingredient One: Belonging
Children grow when they know they belong.
Everything begins with community.
From the moment children arrive, they are welcomed into an atmosphere of kindness, encouragement, respect, and acceptance. We celebrate each child's unique personality, interests, and strengths while fostering a culture where differences are valued.
Every meeting begins with our Community Meeting, where we reconnect, celebrate successes, review our social expectations, and strengthen the positive culture that makes Camp Pegasus feel like home. Belonging is where friendship begins.
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Ingredient Two: Teaching
Social skills are taught—not assumed.
Each session includes direct, engaging instruction from the Camp Pegasus Social-Coping Curriculum. Children learn practical strategies for communication, emotional regulation, flexible thinking, problem solving, friendship building, perspective-taking, and self-advocacy.
Rather than teaching children to "act normal," we help them better understand themselves, understand others, and navigate social situations with greater confidence.
Learning is immediately reinforced through meaningful group experiences.
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Ingredient Three: Creating
Creativity opens doors to communication.
Every Camp Pegasus meeting includes an art-based therapeutic experience facilitated by our licensed, board-certified art therapists.
Group art-making provides a natural and enjoyable way for children to express themselves, solve problems, collaborate with peers, and explore emotions—all while strengthening confidence and social connection. Whether working on murals, group construction projects, or conversing about individual art projects, participants’ social strengths emerge and are celebrated - and social challenges may surface that benefit from our compassionate brand of social coaching.
Children often discover that creating together becomes another language for building friendships.
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Ingredient Four: Playing
Friendships grow through shared experiences.
Children don't practice friendship by talking about it - they practice friendship by playing together. Every session includes guided social opportunities tailored to each age group, and they may include:
~Free play and imaginative activities
~LEGO® and collaborative building challenges
~Cooperative games
~Board games
~Role-playing games
~Dungeons & Dragons adventures for middle school participants
Our therapists gently coach interactions as they naturally occur, helping children apply newly learned skills in authentic situations where lasting friendships are formed. This is where the magic happens.
Three Different Age Groups Meet Weekly From 1pm-3pm
Sessions are held all year round, with rolling admission and rolling graduation. Participants can enroll when space is available & continue in their group of friends as long as you like. The program is facilitated by neurodiversity-affirming master’s level, board certified art therapists & social workers.
Mondays
Ages 12–14
(up to 8th grade)
Wednesdays
Ages 6–8
(up to 3rd grade)
Thursdays
Ages 9–11
(up to 5th grade)
A Typical Afternoon at Camp Pegasus: Homeschool Edition
Opening Community Meeting & Social Lesson (20 minutes)
Each session begins by bringing our community back together. Campers check in about their feelings, review program expectations, celebrate successes, hear announcements, and sing the Camp Pegasus Anthem. This familiar ritual helps reduce anxiety, strengthen connections, and prepare everyone for a successful afternoon.
We also teach a weekly lesson from our proprietary social-emotional coping curriculum, equipping children with practical skills they can use both at Camp and in everyday life.
Play Room & Game Room (45 minutes)
Our play and game spaces offer a blend of structured and unstructured activities designed around children's interests. Younger groups may enjoy imaginative play, LEGO® and building activities, while older participants often gravitate toward board games, role-playing games, and collaborative challenges.
These experiences provide natural opportunities to practice conversation, flexibility, teamwork, and the many small skills that form the foundation of friendship.
Art Therapy Group (45 minutes)
Led by licensed, board-certified art therapists, every session includes a creative group experience—no artistic talent required.
Art-making offers children another way to communicate, understand emotions, build coping skills, and strengthen self-confidence. Collaborative projects encourage teamwork, problem-solving, and the satisfaction of creating something meaningful together.
Our therapists also use art and creative activities to help children regulate their emotions and prepare for a successful transition home.
Closing Goodbye Meeting (10 minutes)
We end each session by revisiting the day's social lesson and encouraging campers to practice their new skills during the week ahead. Participants celebrate their efforts, redeem points for prizes, and come together to sing the Camp Pegasus Goodbye Song.
Just as the opening meeting creates a sense of connection and safety, our closing ritual helps ease transitions and ensures that every child leaves feeling successful, supported, and eager to return.
More Than a Social Skills Program
Camp Pegasus: Homeschool Edition isn't simply a place to learn social skills.
It's a place to laugh together.
To create together.
To play together.
To learn together.
To belong.
Because when children experience belonging, friendship follows—
and everything else begins to soar.
Participant Profile: Who Thrives at Camp Pegasus?
Camp Pegasus: Homeschool Edition is thoughtfully designed for neurodivergent children and teens with autism, ADHD, learning differences, anxiety, and related social challenges who are ready to participate in a small-group experience.
Because every child deserves a setting where they can succeed, all applicants participate in an admissions review process. Our goal is twofold: to ensure that Camp Pegasus can appropriately support each child's emotional and social needs, and to carefully place participants with developmentally compatible peers.
Camp Pegasus is designed for children who are behaviorally independent and possess sufficient self-regulation to participate safely and successfully in a six-person group led by two therapists. Participants should be able to communicate their needs, follow group routines, and return to activities after brief periods of frustration or sensory overload.
Children who thrive at Camp Pegasus generally:
Use spoken language to communicate with peers and adults.
Benefit from cognitive-based social and coping-skills instruction.
Demonstrate safe behavior in group settings.
Can participate without one-to-one support.
Independently manage self-care tasks such as toileting and eating.
Require only brief support or breaks to regulate emotions and impulses.
Because Camp Pegasus: Home School Edition is intentionally designed as a therapeutic peer-group experience rather than an intensive treatment program, children who require frequent extended breaks, ongoing one-to-one support, or higher levels of behavioral intervention may be better served through individual therapy or other specialized services. When Camp Pegasus is not the best fit, we are committed to helping families identify appropriate treatment options.
Get started with an easy admission application.
Step 1
Fill out the enrollment form in the link below:
Step 2
We’ll review your Enrollment form rapidly, contact you to discuss your child’s needs, and answer all your questions about the program
Step 3
If your description of your child’s profile appears to be a good fit for one of the Camp Pegasus peer groups, we will invite your child to attend one individual meeting with one of Camp Pegasus’ facilitator therapists.
Fees & Insurance
A Year-Round Community
Unlike short-term social skills groups that meet for only six or eight weeks, Camp Pegasus: Homeschool Edition is an ongoing, relationship-based program that meets throughout the year. Children may participate for as long as the experience remains meaningful and beneficial to them and their families.
We offer rolling admission, allowing new participants to join whenever an opening becomes available in an age-appropriate group.
Camp Pegasus also features a thoughtful "rolling graduation" process. When families decide that their child is ready to move on, we schedule a special final day to celebrate their accomplishments and help both the child and their peers navigate the transition.
Program Schedule
Mondays | 1:00–3:00 PM
Ages 12–15
Wednesdays | 1:00–3:00 PM
Ages 6–8
Thursdays | 1:00–3:00 PM
Ages 9–11
Registration
Registration is completed on a first-come-first-served basis after completing the admission process and being offered a spot by the therapist who facilitates the program. Because space is so limited in this program, your child’s registration is not confirmed until your child attends their first session. Regardless of when you begin the admission process, if you don’t schedule and attend the first session the program may fill before your child’s registration is confirmed.
Location: Child & Family Art Therapy Center
Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania
Cost:
$75/hr=$300staff $160/session x2 participants= $320
Payment & Registration Policies
You are responsible for payment for each session your child attends and you don’t pay for ones that are canceled by you or the program.*
* Per the Child and Family Art Therapy Center’s cancellation policy, you may be billed for the cost of the session if you cancel with less than 24 hours’ notice or if you no-show for the session.
For your convenience, you can prepay for a block of sessions and draw down the balance. If you choose to pay by the session, payment is due immediately upon completion of each session. Families are required to enter a debit or credit card into our online HIPAA compliant, secure practice management system. The system can automatically charge your debit/credit card or EHR bank transfer after each session for ease and efficiency.
Insurance Reimbursement
We support families’ efforts to receive out-of-network reimbursement from your health insurance company. At your request, we provide a monthly “superbill” (receipt) that lists all service dates and billing codes required by healthcare companies. Superbills are only available after paid completion of services and not in advance as an “invoice”.
Refund Policies
Refunds are not available unless the program made a mistake and errantly charged your card or bank.
Camp Pegasus - Homeschool Edition is located at:
482 Norristown Rd.
Blue Bell, PA 19422
At our Cozy Plymouth Meeting, PA Location, spacious, bright, art, play, and group rooms set the stage for magic to occur between our community members.
ADA compliant space with a large parking lot is convenient for all.