Special Needs Homeschooling

So you want to homeschool your middle schooler?

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TweetSharePin0 SharesWONDERFUL! Homeschooling is not only a learning opportunity that will remove stumbling blocks, frustrating environments, and help strengthen your family ties. Homeschooling is a family learning journey. Children that go to school are bombarded with tons of sensory input. Visually lots of different items on walls from lockers to posters. Smells good and bad permeate the school. Children of… View Post

Books in a Box

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TweetSharePin0 SharesHello moms! Time to get back to homeschooling. Last year I tried out a new system for my homeschooling crew. I separated out each child’s books and workbooks and put them into a small box. I was just thinking it would keep things a bit more tidy. Turns out the kids liked having their own little box. There were… View Post

Middle School Drop-out!

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TweetSharePin0 SharesMiddle school and the tween years. You thought all you would need to deal with would be boy bands, bad fashion, and the latest gaggle of girls over for a slumber party. Then the grades started to fall and the teacher put you on speed dial. You are not alone! We are often left with the impression that by… View Post

More on at home speech therapy

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TweetSharePin0 SharesHello all! I would like to clear up some questions about the two speech therapy programs I recently reviewed. Review: Straight Talk homeschooling speech therapy! Review: Super Star Speech, speech therapy made simple First I want you to know that both of these products are good programs. I like them both. They are similar yet there are some clear… View Post

When you are expected to use public special education preschool

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TweetSharePin0 SharesWhen my autistic child “graduated” from our state’s early intervention program, it was assumed they would go straight to the local public special education preschool. I didn’t understand why preschool was being offered when my child clearly wasn’t developmentally ready for that level. It can be hard to disagree with the “experts” early in the diagnosis. Clearly, they know… View Post