Teaching a child with a disability can be a daunting task. However, know that you are not alone. Many parents have found the public school system inadequate for their child’s needs. More and more, parents are turning to homeschooling as an answer to helping their child learn and cope with day to day life. There are many advantages to homeschooling a special needs child. For instance, there are less distractions, the child is able to work at their own pace without the demand to meet somebody else’s time schedule and the stress is greatly reduced when the child is at home, allowing the mind to concentrate on learning. Homeschooling provides the one-on-one attention that many students with disabilities need.
Depending on your child’s disability, there are many resources to look into online. Yahoo Groups offers a wide variety of groups to join so as to gather more info on your child’s particular issue and ways to meet the demand of teaching for your child. As with everything, you must be guided by wisdom and discernment in regards joining the different groups. However, most that I’ve seen concentrate on the issue at hand. Here are a few websites geared toward helping teach the learning disabled student.
Personal Note: I've had lots of ups and downs and doubted myself along the way with what we've done and how we've proceeded. I think that's pretty normal. Not only is each child unique but each family is unique too. Even if two children were exactly the same, if they are in two different families, what works or helps will be different. I think if homeschooling is something you have decided to do, you should know that you will have days where you think you just can't do it. That you need to send your child back to school. That may be true in some cases. However, in talking to parents whose children are in public school, I stay happy overall with our decisions. There are no miracles either way, just hard work and slow but steady progress.
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Thanks for sharing. Very useful.
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