Lose the Training Wheels – Nearby Workshops

The ability to ride a bike is not only fun and healthful.  It can be key to transportation and inclusion with peers.  Yet the ability to ride a bike eludes many with intellectual and physical disabilities.   Enter Lose the Training Wheels, (LTTW) bike riding program created by Dr. Richard Klein, retired Professor of Engineering at UI – Champaign Urbana.

Using a unique system of graduated wheels, sponsor organizations, volunteers and therapy professionals, LTTW teams offer week-long workshops around the country helping children and adults learn to ride a bike.  They have a very high level of success.

There are two camps taking place near Lake and McHenry County this summer.  (There are none in Lake County.)  Camp registration is around $200-$350 depending on location,   In addition, volunteers are still being enrolled.  They camps are:

June 25-29, Milwaukee, Co-hosted by the Autism Society of SE Wisconsin (ASSEW)
414-427-9345 , assew3@assew.org and the Down Syndrome Association of Wisconsin (DSAW) 414-327-3729, info@dsaw.org.  Limited space is available.

 July 30 – August 3rd — Hosted by the Easter Seals DuPage and the Fox Valley Region.  Contact Mary Beth Scholtes at 630-261-6287, mscholtes@eastersealsdfvr.org.

Each site has multiple sessions each day.  There are over 80 camps going on around the country this summer.  They are listed here.

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