By Peggy Ployhar When our family started our special education homeschooling journey almost 15 years ago, the homeschooling landscape was very different than it is today. From my experience homeschooling...
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How to Accommodate and Modify Your Math Curriculum
By Dawn Spence This is the second article in my series on accommodations and modifications. In my first article, I explained the differences between accommodations and modifications. But now I...
When Your Student Derails Your Homeschool High School Plan
By Peggy Ployhar Two years ago, my 16-year-old son with Dyslexia approached me and said that he didn’t want to do school anymore. We had had this conversation many...
Gifts of the Season
By Melissa Smith “May the God of all hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound...
Cultivating Compassion in Our Families
Dyana Robbins As much as special-needs parents understand caring for others, cultivating compassion in our children can be difficult. Sometimes, conditions like autism or mental illness make compassion challenging...
Identifying and Correcting Blocked Learning Gates
By Dianne Craft, MA, CNHP Are you working with a bright, hard working child or teenager who has to work too hard to learn? This is the child...
Surviving the Holidays with Children who have Sensory Integration Disorder and Special Needs
By Jennifer Cullimore, M.A. Speech-Language Pathology The holidays are rapidly approaching and sometimes our schedules fill up before we know it. However, for parents of children with special needs;...
Fables, Fairy Tales and Foundational Truths
By Sherry Martin He said, “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who...
20 Fall Special Education Homeschooling Activities
By Peggy Ployhar It’ that time of year again, when everything is pumpkin flavored, field trips consist of visits to apple orchards, corn mazes, and pumpkin patches…and school starts...
