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Navigate homeschooling for children with special needs. Find resources for various learning differences, including dyslexia, ADHD, and autism. Discover adaptive strategies, specialized curricula, and support for parents to create an inclusive and effective learning environment.

5 Tips For a Sensory-Friendly Independence Day

5 Tips For a Sensory-Friendly Independence Day

Independence Day is synonymous with fireworks, back yard cookouts, pool parties and beach trips. Fun in the sun! However, for children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) or even a sensory sensitivity, this can be an overwhelming season. Noise, sun, sweat, or scratchy sand between the toes can cause sensory overload. The next thing you know your sweet child is melting down faster than a popsicle in the sunshine.

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Homeschooling Special Needs Students Without a Curriculum

Homeschooling Special Needs Students Without a Curriculum

Homeschooling special needs students can feel intimidating, even when you’ve found the perfect curriculum that suits your child’s learning style. It’s even more intimidating when you either can’t find a good fit or you’re so bombarded with therapy schedules and doctor visits, that you wonder how to make one work. Not that long ago, I found myself in a unique situation that I never expected. Based on necessity, we had to make some changes.

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Homeschooling and Learning Disabilities

Homeschooling and Learning Disabilities: The Benefits

Homeschooling and learning disabilities are a combination that you’ll hear often in the home education community. In fact, it’s one of the biggest reasons why parents choose to homeschool their children. Although learning disabilities often get put under a negative light in the school system, that’s genuinely not the case. In this post, I’d like to highlight the benefits of homeschooling children with learning disabilities.

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6 Truths About Gifted Kids

Yup, I just used the G-word. Did you cringe just now, when you read it? To be honest, I still cringe a little too. As the mother of a profoundly gifted and twice-exceptional child, I think that gifted is a terrible label; it brings to mind images of beautifully-wrapped packages with neatly tied bows. Our gifted reality is sometimes beautiful but complicated and challenging and anything but neat. When folks hear the word gifted, they tend to make assumptions.

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