It seemed like horse play for little Julio and 24 other children in June, but it had much greater meaning for TCU faculty and students. Called Camp Hope Connection 2000, it is a vital part of TCU’s Developmental Research Lab, a group that helps kids adopted from foreign orphanages. The second year of the unique camp enlisted 30 TCU students who volunteered during the month-long day camp. To prepare, they enrolled in a spring class where they learned how to relate to special-needs children. The children, most of whom spent at least the first three years of their life in a foreign orphanage, all have varying degrees of sensory deficit and attachment disorders, problems due to early neglect.