The purpose of the study is to analyze the state of the problem of training counselors at a university to work with children, including those with special educational needs, in a children's camp in the context of inclusive education. The article describes international and domestic approaches to inclusive education, the goals and problems of its development in pedagogical science and practice at the present stage, and presents approaches to defining the category of children with special educational needs. A description of the content of the recommended program of the module “Fundamentals of Leader Activities” (MPGU, 2018), the goals of the program, the main sections reflecting current issues of organizing individual and joint activities of children, including those with special educational needs, in a children’s camp are presented, and an analysis of the programs is also carried out training of counselors in universities in relation to the purpose of the study, taking into account the main approaches to determining the categories of children with special educational needs. The authors of the article present the experience of developing a work program for the discipline “Fundamentals of Leader Activities” based on the recommended program of the module “Fundamentals of Leader Activities” at Moscow State Pedagogical University (2018), describe a fragment of the work program, indicators for achieving general professional competence developed by the university, describe an example of an assessment tool for the work program and criteria for its evaluation. The prospects for the research are to develop the problem of organizing psychological, pedagogical, socio-pedagogical support for children with special educational needs in a children's camp, to develop methodological complexes for organizing joint and individual educational work with children in a children's camp in the conditions of inclusive education, taking into account general and specific educational needs various categories of vacationing pupils.