Special Needs

Learning Disability Programs  Learning Institute ELI – Real Measurable Help for Learning Disabilities (ELI), providing tailored programs for struggling students and children with learning disabilities. As many as one in three students will experience the pain of an unidentified learning disability… a major crisis! Understanding and properly identifying these learning problems is the first...
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From free spirit Publishing High IQ Kids Collected Insights, Information, and Personal Stories from the Experts Edited by Kiesa Kay, Deborah Robson, and Judy Fort Brenneman Profoundly gifted kids often get the least help in school. It’s assumed they’re smart enough to succeed on their own, plus teachers (and parents) feel out of their...
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This book by Joanna L. Keating-Velasco is A Kid’s Book on Making Friends with a child who has autism. The books main character, Chelsea tells us what it is like to live a life with autism. The author writes this: A is for Autism, F is for Friend offers lessons in understanding, acceptance and...
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Helping a Child with Nonverbal Learning Disorder or Asperger’s Disorder, by Kathryn Stewart “A fully revised and expanded edition of a best-selling classic, this book offers complete information about parenting a child with a nonverbal learning disorder or Asperger’s disorder. This edition includes a new section on anxiety and social anxiety, now commonly held...
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The groups description states in part: Special Needs at Home Swap is a mailing list for the buying, selling or trading of used equipment, programs, and curriculum for children who have learning disabilities or have a “special need” in some way. The list is not just for homeschooling parents of kids with unique challenges,...
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I found some useful special needs resources from homeschool Mom, Melissa Wiley at her Lilting House Blog. Here are a few of them: Speech Therapy At Home Newborn Hearing Screen: A Piece of Advice Fun With Audiology: Making Ear Molds Be sure to visit her site to explore these and other interesting homeschool resources....
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