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If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily morning newsletter, How To LA. Every weekday, you'll get fresh, community-driven stories that catch you up with our independent local news.The last day of the Sandy Feet beach camp in San Clemente started with a rousing game of hula hoop showdown. Players from each team hop down a row of hula hoops, and when they meet, it's a rochambeau faceoff.The kids at this camp, ages 7 to 13, all have siblings at home with special needs.
"So, like, we were talking about, like, emotional boundaries for our siblings and for our parents and our friends," she said."Sometimes his emotions start to get, like, really dysregulated," she said.Mo Langley started Sandy Feet in 2017. She said she got into surfing in her 40s and started volunteering at surf camps for people with disabilities. She remembers working with a young girl one day who slipped off her boogie board into the waves.
"We bring them to the beach, we make them feel like they're number one, they get to meet other kids just like them because most of them don't know another child who has a sibling with special needs," she said."So that is really important to them, to feel like they're part of a community."Seven years later, some 500 kids have gone to Sandy Feet beach camps, after school programs and special events, Langley said.
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