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| Date: From: Subject: | 8/9/2012 9:32:39 AM Betty Statnick--HSLDA Struggling Learners--Homeschooling: Away With Fears and Tears |
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---------------------------------------------------------------- HSLDA's Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner Newsletter August 2012--Homeschooling: Away With Fears and Tears ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---[ The program that takes the struggle out of spelling! ]----------- All About Spelling is an excellent multi-senory, logical program if you are just beginning to teach your child spelling, or if your child needs remedial help. Download sample lesson plans FREE! http://www.hslda.org/alink.asp?id=515 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- by Betty T. Statnick, M. Ed. HSLDA Special Needs Consultant "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" Actually, let's make that "Since August is here, can my first day to homeschool be far behind?" You have said that IEP to you now means I'm Expecting Problems in this adventure; but I know God is calling me to homeschool and I do want to do it right and help my child learn. You have heard speakers at homeschool conferences and purchased some curriculum they recommended. You have surveyed those curriculum materials and are questioning: Am I really up to this challenge? Is my child really up to this challenge? You decide you don't want to live in fear yourself, nor do you want to project any fear onto your child. You give yourself a little pep talk and also remind yourself that HSLDA does have three special needs consultants who are available not only to lend a listening ear but also to share from their own training and extensive experience as they assist you. Your friends have told you that the teaching tips and resources those consultants dispensed were like life preservers to a sinking "sole." (Yes, your friend said she also felt very alone when she began homeschooling and even after she had progressed beyond the novice stage.) I continue to eavesdrop on your musings: "This newsletter tells me that Betty has been reading my mind, but she still implies that I'm normal ... right on target." You have filled in your plan book and are eager to check off those daily accomplishments. Time marches on, and you realize that maybe your plans were just a tad ambitious because you couldn't possibly get through all those pages you had anticipated "conquering" in each of the academic subjects. You (tremblingly) have some mini conversations with other homeschool moms and discover that your homeschool experience is no different from their initial homeschool adventures: for instance, that it isn't necessary for your child to work every single page of a workbook when he has shown that he already has grasped that concept. You will want to read/review all of the HSLDA Struggling Learner email teaching newsletters http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=15364 , for they cover a broad range of topics. HSLDA members have sometimes commented that those newsletters are like mini-teaching workshops. I have a rather extensive home library of books which speak to the questions callers want to discuss with us HSLDA special needs consultants. (According to the feedback from members, those books have given many answers to their voiced and unvoiced questions.) Attached you will find a list of some of those books. 1. How to Get Your Child off the Refrigerator and on to Learning--Homeschooling Highly Distractible, ADHD, or Just Plain Fidgety Kids by Carol Barnier, Emerald Books 2. Teenagers with ADD and ADHD--A Guide for Parents and Professionals by Chris Zeigler Dendy, M.S., http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=15355 3. When the Brain Can't Hear--Unraveling the Mystery of Auditory Processing Disorder by Teri James Bellis, Ph. D., Atria Books http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=15356 4. Childhood Speech, Language, and Listening Problems--What Every Parent Should Know by Patricia McAleer Hamaguchi, M.A. C.C.C./S.L.P. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=15357 5. Help for Auditory Processing by Andrea Lazzari and Patricia Peters, http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=15358 6. Homeschooling the Child with Autism--Answers to the Top Questions Parents and Professionals Ask by Patricia Schetter, M.A. and Kandis Lighthall, M.A., http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=15359 7. Homeschooling Children with Special Needs by Sharon Hensley, M.A., http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=15360 8. Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz, M.D. This author is a professor of pediatrics at Yale. 9. The Source for Dyslexia and Dysgraphia by Regina Richards, M.A., http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=15361 10. i DOC - Individualized Documentation System for the Exceptional Needs Student by Sharon Wallace and Julia Hoch bbapath@msn.com 11. Individual Education Planning Manual--For the Homeschool Handicapped Student by Deborah Mills http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=15365 12. The Student Education Plan by Judith Munday, M.A., learn@helpinschool.net 13. Learning Disability Intervention Manual by Steven McCarney and Angela Bauer This book contains IEP goals. Hawthorne Educational Services, Inc. http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=15362 14. Teaching Your Special Need Student: Strategies and Tools that Really Work YOU CAN DO THIS by Judith Munday, M.A., learn@helpinschool.net 15. Different Learners (Identifying, Preventing, and Treating your Child's Learning Problems) by Jane Healy, Ph. D. ISBN 1-4165-5641-1 16. The Mislabeled Child by Brock Eide, M.D., M.A., and Fernette Eide, M.D. ISBN 1-4013-0225-4 17. Teaching Math to People With Down Syndrome and Other Hands-On Learners by DeAnna Horstmeier, Ph. D., http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=15363 Check with your public library to see if any of these books are among their current holdings. If not, speak with the head librarian and inquire if he or she would consider purchasing some of these books. You may also want to suggest that your homeschool support group begin forming a circulating library in order to add to their existing benefits. So remember, you are not alone--your HSLDA special needs consultants are only a phone call or email away and we are here to help calm your fears and tears! Also, by arming yourself with some of the valuable resources shared above and the free, struggling learner email newsletters, we hope you will feel equipped and encouraged as you face the new (quickly approaching) school year. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> What do you look like when you get out of bed? It's hard to look our best all the time. HSLDA works to present homeschooling in an engaging, dynamic, and informative light to the public news media. More reasons to join HSLDA... http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=1104 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. 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