Autism & Homeschooling?
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So much depends on what level of autism he has, and grade and academic level.
For math, a good program is Math U See, because it’s very visual. I think Frontline phonics for reading. For behavior, look at “Work in Progress”. At preschool level, those are the basics and the rest if developmental stuff. A good homeschool group could really make or break that program as well, we have two wonderful groups that my kids fit into very well, and the social stuff just works.
As someone else mentioned, it’s illegal for a school to say that they only offer X program, according to IDEA, they have to provide what is APPROPRIATE to the child, and there is no way that four hours a week is good prep for school for an autistic child. Thirty hours of school and therapy is appropriate, and what is been proven to work on children with autism. However, she has a fight in front of her for that, we fought for five years before I finally said, i could more effectively homeschool my kids and not have to undo all the stress and mismanagement from our relatively good school.
A bad school, i don’t know how horrible that would be.
1. National Home Education Network
2. Help Your Child Explore Science
3. Natural Child Project
4. Family Unschoolers Network
5. Homeschool Groups
6. The Highschool Homeschooling Page
7. Homeschool Headlines
8. Home School Teachers Lounge
9. The Home School Zone
http://www.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/education.html
HOME SCHOOLING.
http://www.homeschool.com/
http://www.hslda.org
http://homeschooling.about.com/od/curriculum/Homeschool_Curriculum.htm
http://www.homefires.com/
Homeschool.com also has the following information available free of charge:
http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/index.html
http://www.home-schooling-advice.net/
http://www.canteach.ca/links/linkhomeschool.html
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
http://www.teachnlearn.org/index.htm
For resources, order a catalog from Rainbow Resources, they have a ton of stuff from many different curriculum providers.
I would like to recommend that your friend also insist on an immediate IEP meeting (she should be having one anyway since moving to a new district requires the IEP to be redone in the method specific to that district) and file a formal grievance about this placement. Her son is loosing way too many hours to simply let it go. Soon, he will be needing a full time placement and she should start working with the school now. Many districts like the one she seems to be in have contracts with other districts and even private schools..she needs to find out what happens to kids who require more than the current district has and begin working to get that for her child.
http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/weblinks/autism.htm
http://www.nhen.org/specneed/default.asp?id=274
http://www.homeschoolzone.com/add/autism.htm
http://www.themorningstaracademy.org/articles/homeschooling_with_autism.html
Some have links to support groups. Those support groups would undoubtedly be able to recommend resources much better than the general population in Yahoo Answers can.
Try http://www.rainbowresource.com and request their print catalog, you find a lot in there that seem difficult to locate on the website.
There is also an organization dedicated to homeschooling special needs children, contact them at:
http://www.nathhan.com
Also check out,
http://www.hslda.org/hs/specialneeds/default.asp
http://www.brightword.com/homeschooling-special-needs.html
http://www.suite101.com/course.cfm/17312/lessons
Linguisystems has a lot of fantastic material that is used for Autism. I highly recommend it!!
www.linguisystems.com
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