Resources for Homeschoolers
Special Education Resources
Homeschooling and Special Needs
A few tips on the legal issues of beginning to homeschool your special needs child in Pennsylvania. Brief, but helpful.
This general site offers lots of information about various learning difficulties, teaching tips and strategies, and special sections for teachers, parents, and homeschoolers.
Mel Levine's website has lots of articles and tools for educators and parents who work with kids who are "wired differently." This is a great general resource for understanding kids with learning challenges.
The National Home Education Network offers a special education page with articles, encouragement, resources, and an extensive list of book suggestions for parents educating their special needs kids at home.
A to Z Home's Cool Special Needs
Ann Zeise offers a selection of websites and print information on homeschooling kids with various needs.
Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner
Identifying struggling learners, teaching tips, legal considerations, and information on consultants, testing and resources, offered by HSLDA.
NATHHAN: National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network
NATHHAN is primarily a support group for parents homeschooling kids with widely varying challenges, including severe handicaps. Their website offers articles, home-based phonics and speech therapy programs, online issues of their newsletter, and a discussion forum.
This site offers articles, resources, tools, and support via email communities to homeschoolers who are teaching children with ADHD issues.
Tammy Glaser's homeschooling webpage offers every resource you could think of for parents homeschooling kids on the autism spectrum. She discusses teaching, socialization, therapies, support, and has links for dozens of email loops for parents homeschooling spectrum kids. Lots to read and consider.
Online Support
Online communities often offer the best support for homeschoolers with special needs kids; if you've got questions, someone's got answers because they've been there before you. Here are a few email loops and messageboards you might find helpful.
