Getting Started & Legal
From SPED to Homeschooling

Disorders
Autistic Spectrum
ADD/ADHD
Communicative Disorders
Difficult Temperament
Learning Disabilities
Sensory Integration
Vision Difficulties

Resources
Homeschooling SPED
General SPED

Other Helpful Pages
Homeschooling Basics
BayShore Home
BayShore Private ISP
Homeschool Resources

Contact Lenore
Email
Consultations

Yoga for the Special Child
by Sonia Sumar

In Their Own Way
by Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D.

Homeschooling the Challenging Child:
A Practical Guide
by Christine M. Field

Fun & Educational Places to Go With Kids and Adults in Southern CA
by Susan Peterson (8th edition)

Carschooling: Over 350 Entertaining Games & Activities to Turn Travel Time into Learning Time - For Kids Ags 4-17
by Diane Flynn Keith

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a signed copy directly from the author!

Books

Homeschooling the Child with ADD or Other Special Needs: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the Child with Learning Differences by Lenore Colacion Hayes, Prima Publishing, March 2002.
This book is about more than ADD (the publisher thought this would sell books) and includes issues pertinent to anyone interested in homeschooling a square peg child. Read the introduction.

Articles

• Bringing Your Child Home
by Lenore Colacion Hayes, HSC's Chaos to Confidence, 2003

• Increased Mental Health Screening - Are You Crazy!?!
by Larry & Susan Kaseman,
Home Education Magazine, January-February 2005

Our Thought-Provoking Ideas about Socialization by Tammy Glaser, Weird Kids, 1999

Websites

• HSC's Special Challenges Section
Informational site from the nonprofit state organization, HomeSchool Association of CA. The site includes helpful articles and resources.

• A to Z's Home's Cool Site - Special Needs Section
Sections include: Able, but challenged, autism, blindness, deafness, dyslexia, dyspraxia, learning disabilities & legal issues & listing of vendors.

• About.com Homeschooling Site - Special Needs
Covering such areas as: ADD, gifted, special challenges, able but challenged, autism, blindness, deafness, legal issues and screening.Homeschooling Kids with Disabilities Information
Lots of links to a variety of resources on homeschooling special needs.

• Homeschooling Children with Disabilities
Webring of sites by homeschooling families with special kids.

  Email Lists

• Homeschooling Special Needs Kidz

• Homeschool Plus

• HomeschoolingExtraordinaryKids

· Thinking Outside the Box

• Special Needs Homeschool

• Homeschooling Kids With Disabilities

• Leaping from the Box
Lots of Lists! An exhaustive and descriptive listing of homeschooling email lists, including many forspecial needs families.

Christian-Based Homeschooling

Books

• Homeschooling The Challenging Child: A Practical Guide by Christine M. Field.
Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005.

• Homeschooling Children with Special Needs by Sharon Hensley, 2009 (3rd edition).

• Choosing and Using Curriculum for Your Special Child by Joyce Herzog. Greenleaf Press, 1996.

• Learning in Spite of Labels by Joyce Herzog.Greenleaf Press, 1994.

• Better Late Than Early: A New Approach to Your Child's Education by Raymond S. Moore Ph.D. and Dorothy Moore. Reader's Digest Press, 1982.

Email Lists

• Charlotte Mason for Special Kids

Websites

• Rhonda Robinson's Recipe for a Homeschooled IEP
From the Nathhan website, suggestions for IEP goals for those who may want to develop such a program, even if not using school services.

• National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network  (NATHHAN)
National organization for those homeschooling special needs children. Christian perspective.

• Special Needs Homeschooling (Christian perspective) webpage by homeschooling parent Heather Laurie.

General SPED Resources
Helpful for Homeschoolers

 

• Yoga for the Special Child by Sonia Sumar (1996). Special Yoga Publications, Rt. 1, Box 1559, Buckingham, VA 23921.

• The Child with Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth by Stanley Greenspan, M.D. Perseus Press, 1998.

• The Tao of Teaching:  The Ageless Wisdom of Taoism and the Art of Teaching by Greta Nagel. Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1994.

• The Tao of Parenting: The Ageless Wisdom of Taoism and the Art of Raising Children by Greta Nagel. Penquin Books, 1998.

 

Seven Times Smarter: 50 Activities, Games, and Projects to Develop the Seven Intelligences of Your Child by Laurel Schmidt, 2001.

 

 

IEP Assistance

• Family Village Schools - University of Wisconsin at Madison.
This global community provides a variety of disability-related resources.  Of note - their links to a variety of online samples of goals and objectives for IEP and 504 accommodations. Not a homeschooling related resource, but helpful nonetheless!

• Sample IEP Goals from LearningAbled Kids

Copying
Organization
Reading
Spelling
Written Expression

 

 

General All-Purpose
Homeschooling Books

 

• Home Learning Year by Year: Home to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School
by Rebecca Rupp, 2000.

• 100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum: Choosing the Reight Educational Philosophy for Your Child’s Learning Style
by Cathy Duffy, 2005.

• Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling
by John Holt & Pat Farenga, 2003.

• Trust the Children: An Activity Manual for Homeschooling and Alternative Learning
by Anna Kealoha, 1997.

• Homeschooling the Middle Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 8- to 12-Year-Old Child
by Shari Henry, 1999.

• Homeschooling the Teen Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 13- to 18- Year-Old
by Cafi Cohen, 2000.

 

 

 

Learning Fun
These titles are not homeschooling books per se, but are written by homeschooling moms. These are must-haves for homeschooling the differently abled kid!

 

• Fun & Educational Places to Go With Kids and Adults in Southern CA
by Susan Peterson, 8th ed., 2009

• Carschooling: Over 350 Entertaining Games & Activities to Turn Travel Time into Learning Time - For Kids Ags 4-17
by Diane Flynn Keith, 2009

 

Therapies

• American Art Therapy Association   

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)