Jan Bedell, PhD, Master NeuroDevelopmentalist The controversy, almost hostile conflict, over the best way to teach reading has been waged for decades. The pendulum seems to swing to one side...
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Creative Methods to Help Special Needs Children Achieve Goals
SPED Homeschool Team During the homeschool struggle with special needs, it’s not uncommon to feel like you are treading water or getting nowhere. Standard educational and developmental goals are...
Helping your Struggling Reader to Find Books
By Tracy Glockle We all want our kids to enjoy reading, to know what it feels like to get lost in a book, but for many of our kids with...
Using Lexile Scores to Help your Struggling Reader
By Tracy Glockle Lexile scores for books can seem like a foreign language, a secret code of numbers and letters that seem to make no sense. But when you crack...
An Interview with Cheryl Swope, M.Ed, SPED Homeschool Board Vice-Chair
Interview provided by Cheryl Swope, M.Ed.Interviewer: Brian Phillips, CiRCE Institute Author of Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child, Cheryl Swope is an advocate of classical Christian education for...
Gearing Up for the School Year Through End of Summer Learning Adventures
By Shannon Ramiro Whether or not you have taken advantage of the many seasonal adventures only available during the summer months, there are still a few weeks left to use...
Teaching Your Child to Write: Getting Thoughts On Paper
By Mary Winfield Once you have worked on sizing, alignment, and spacing, it is time to help your child put their thoughts together into sentences and paragraphs. For me, this...
Writing an IEP: Accommodations and Modifications
By Amy Vickrey, MSE After you have done preparation before, and then you have written your child’s IEP goals, you need to think about the tools your child needs to...
Benefits of Learning American Sign Language
By Amy Vickrey, MSE American Sign Language is a beautiful and useful language to know. I have used it many times in my adult life to communicate with parents, customers,...
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...
