{"id":5643,"date":"2025-07-08T14:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/?p=5643"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:29:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:29:33","slug":"coming-to-disney-july-9-camp-alec-documentary-featuring-dr-karen-erickson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/2025\/07\/coming-to-disney-july-9-camp-alec-documentary-featuring-dr-karen-erickson\/","title":{"rendered":"Streaming on Disney+ starting July 9: Camp ALEC Documentary Featuring Dr. Karen Erickson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5649 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2025\/07\/Camp-ALEC-Disney-Documentary-image-e1752074427178.png\" alt=\"Image clip of the documentary, a camp counselor with 2 of the campers. Camp ALEC Disney+ Documentary\" width=\"879\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2025\/07\/Camp-ALEC-Disney-Documentary-image-e1752074427178.png 2795w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2025\/07\/Camp-ALEC-Disney-Documentary-image-e1752074427178-300x101.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2025\/07\/Camp-ALEC-Disney-Documentary-image-e1752074427178-1024x346.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2025\/07\/Camp-ALEC-Disney-Documentary-image-e1752074427178-768x259.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2025\/07\/Camp-ALEC-Disney-Documentary-image-e1752074427178-1536x519.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2025\/07\/Camp-ALEC-Disney-Documentary-image-e1752074427178-2048x692.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2025\/07\/Camp-ALEC-Disney-Documentary-image-e1752074427178-600x203.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 879px) 100vw, 879px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karen Erickson, Phd, is featured in a new Disney+ documentary spotlighting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campalec.com\/about\">Camp ALEC<\/a>\u2014a unique camp for children with physical disabilities whose primary communication mode is augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2014, and now hosted at Rocky Mountain Village in Colorado, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campalec.com\/about\">Camp ALEC <\/a>brings together campers and educators for a week of intensive literacy instruction and joyful camp experiences. Under the direction of Dr. Erickson and Dr. David Koppenhaver, the camp models high-impact, inclusive teaching while empowering children with physical disabilities to grow in independence, confidence, and communication.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in on July 9 to see how literacy, community, and creativity come together at Camp ALEC\u2014and how Erickson&#8217;s work is making a lasting impact for students and educators across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer below&#8230;..<\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.2 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3iiPToF_UgQ?si=JJmznISHC77ldHZr\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" 0=\"allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Erickson, Phd, is featured in a new Disney+ documentary spotlighting Camp ALEC\u2014a unique camp for children with physical disabilities whose primary communication mode is augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Founded in 2014, and now hosted at Rocky Mountain Village in Colorado, Camp ALEC brings together campers and educators for a week of intensive literacy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/2025\/07\/coming-to-disney-july-9-camp-alec-documentary-featuring-dr-karen-erickson\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Streaming on Disney+ starting July 9: Camp ALEC Documentary Featuring Dr. Karen Erickson\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56087,"featured_media":5112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dhs-news","category-news","category-shs-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2018\/07\/EricksonKaren-scaled.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2018\/07\/EricksonKaren-214x300.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2018\/07\/EricksonKaren-768x1075.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2018\/07\/EricksonKaren-731x1024.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2018\/07\/EricksonKaren-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Dr. Karen Erickson","category_details":[{"name":"DHS News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/category\/dhs-news\/"},{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/category\/news\/"},{"name":"SHS News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/category\/news\/shs-news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5652,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions\/5652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}