Lessons
Introduction: Choosing to homeschool any child is a life-altering decision, but choosing to homeschool a child with challenges is especially...
Can I Really Do This?
Is This Legal?
Before Removing Your Child From School
Effectively Removing Your Child From School
Should You Request Services From the School?
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Lesson 2: Creating a Personal Philosophy
Every parent who decides to homeschool has to create a philosophy. It doesn’t have to be a permanent philosophy. I have been known to change...
What is a structured homeschool?
What is unschooling?
What is an eclectic homeschool?
Do I want a ready-made curriculum?
Does my child need a disability label?
Should I accommodate my child's disability?
Build Your Philosophy
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Lesson 3: Catching Up and Moving On
Many special needs children begin in the public or private school system. By the time the parent decides to homeschool, the child is often far behind...
Special Challenges of Formerly Schooled Children
Recovering Socially and Emotionally
Rediscovering the Joy of Learning
A Plan for Catching Up
A Master Plan for Success
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Lesson 4: Lesson Planning
Oh no! I'm supposed to teach math, too? How do you teach the subjects you don't really understand? How do you build a lesson plan--or even an entire...
How to Teach What You Don't Know
Finding Ready-Made Lesson Plans Online
Adapting Lesson Plans for Your Child's Disability
Making a Lesson Plan From Scratch
Evaluating Your Child's Learning
Creating and Adapting Tests
Suggested Assignments and Journal Ideas
Lesson 5: Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic
Reading, writing and math often present special challenges for disabled children. Learn some techniques for coping and for catching up, as well as...
Tips for Teaching Reading
Tips for Mastering Math
Dysgraphia and Other Handwriting Issues
Surviving the Spelling Challenge
Reports, Stories and Other Writing
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Lesson 6: Create Your Own Unit Study
In this lesson, you will build a unit study especially designed to meet your child's special needs and interests....
Getting Started
Locating Materials
Organizing Your Material
Putting It All Together
A Sample School Day
Tips for Successful Unit Studies
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Lesson 7: Problem Solving for Success
Your philosophy is created and your lesson plans are ready...but things aren't going quite as planned. Now what?...
Perfection vs. Reality
Pacing
Learning Styles
Behavior Challenges
Attention Span and Dawdling
Parental Bad Days
The Gifted Child With Disabilities
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Lesson 8: Homeschooling for the Long Run
You’ve set up your school and learned to create lesson plans and even full units. You’ve worked out accommodations and resolved the...
Becoming an Independent Learner
Preparing for College
Returning to Traditional School
The Last Thing You Need to Know
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