By Jennifer Duncan Raising and teaching gifted children is an amazingly fun challenge, but it is a challenge. Something that I have learned over the past few decades is that...
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Rewards vs. Bribes: A Case for Using External Motivators
By Jill Camacho Have you tried absolutely everything to motivate your child to get their school work done? Are you using incentives and worried about bribing? Are you unsure if...
Using Good Stories to Compel Learning for Any Child
By Cheryl Swope, M.Ed All of our children benefit from hearing good stories. Stories convey messages we need to hear. Some of these messages resonate with our children who face...
3 Important Tips When Using Technology with Special Needs Children
By Kimberly Vogel It’s getting easier and easier to make adaptations using technology for our struggling learners. I recently found a new tool to help: Tech finder! You can...
The Missing Link in Special Education Homeschooling Instruction
By Peggy Ployhar Recently I received a call from an exasperated mother who was desperately trying to find a way to teach her son. After homeschooling for 14 years and...
Crossing the Homeschool Bridge to High School
By Tracy Criswell Homeschooling a child with different needs can be overwhelming, especially during the junior high years. Then when you get to eighth grade, you and your child have...
How-To Effectively Instill Godly Character in Children Using Parenting Anger
By Peggy Ployhar In the previous article in this series, Shifting Parenting Anger from Controlling Mode to Training Mode, I talked about how parenting anger can point out a child’s...
Using Workboxes to Support Individualized Learning
By Dawn Spence I first learned about workboxes and visual supports when I taught a self-contained classroom for children with special needs. I saw how the organization and the predictability...
Using Questioning Strategies to Teach
By Kimberly Vogel Good teaching involves many different approaches to presenting information. One of my favorite good teaching practices involves questioning strategies. Often overlooked, asking the right questions encourages the...
Auditory Processing – Problems, Bypasses & Corrections
By Dianne Craft, MA, CNHP “When my son reads, he struggles so much because he has to sound out the same word over and over again in the story.” ...