It is summer in Kansas. By 8:00 am the summer heat begins to rise and the slight humidity grazes your skin. You and your friends are getting excited as you await the arrival of the bus. You enter, take your seat and you are off. An hour trip goes by quickly as friends sing, laugh and enjoy each others company. It is now 9:30 and you have reached your destination — The Institute of Logopedics' Camp Logos.

For thirty years, over 2,000 children with a variety of developmental disabilities took part in a typical summer adventure-camp. In 1962, thanks to the generosity of donors and pledges from the Institute of Logopedics National Board of Trustees, Camp Logos was created - a brainchild of Dr. Martin Palmer and his staff. As Dr. Palmer stated in a brochure designed to promote the many activities at the Institute of Logopedics, "Since the Institute's beginning, it has been our desire and aim to furnish the communicatively handicapped children whom we serve with as many experiences as possible...Toward this end, the Institute carries on an extensive program designed to aid in the total development of each child by broadening his environmental horizons. There are avenues leading to and strengthening communication."

Camp Logos was situated on 10 acres located near Four Mile creek just outside the town of Augusta in Butler County. The camp grounds consisted of a clubhouse, pool, shuffleboard court, playground and fields for baseball and other sports. Camp activities covered arts and crafts, fishing, swimming, horseback riding, hiking, and some summers, ice-cream making and movies.

Every activity was specially designed with the children of the Institute of Logopedics/Heartspring in mind; incorporating speech and language skills for growth and independence. For a brief time in the early 1990s, Camp Logos rented out facilities at Eberely Farm.

For Cheryl O'Brien, current Heartspring workshop coordinator and director of Camp Logos for nine years, the camp experience was a time and place where she saw growth among all the children in a variety of new day-to-day activities. She remembers many stories of staff camaraderie, inside jokes, camp sing alongs, arts and crafts and so many more during her time as camp director. To put it into words, "It was the most wonderful experience for our children and staff."