Dawn Spence When babies are born they communicate in cries to get their needs met. We lovingly meet their needs and wait to hear their first words. Sometimes those...
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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...
Tips for Creating Routines and Teaching Independence
Amy Vickrey, MSE Some children seem to learn new skills quickly and effortlessly, almost as if they were born doing them. For other children, it’s not so easy. We push and...
Incorporating Mom-Care Into Your Homeschooling Schedule
Peggy Ployhar I would love to say that the majority of my homeschooling years I followed the recommendation we moms get all the time, to put on our own oxygen...
How Does Your Summer Homeschooling Approach Compare?
SPED Homeschool Team Have you ever wondered how your approach to summer homeschooling compares with other special education homeschooling families? We did too, so we asked our community how...
Support Tribes
Find Your Tribe Being connected to fellow, in-the-trenches, homeschooling families is essential to keeping your perspective and gaining the ongoing support you and your student need Co-ops/Support Groups...
Time Management: Step 6 In Cultivating Your Child’s Heart for Instruction
By Peggy Ployhar Over the years of working through my parenting anger issues, the biggest lesson I have learned about myself is my natural tendency to want to always be...
The Lows and Highs of Assistive Technology
By Tracy Criswell Many parents hear the word assistive technology and automatically think that it will be expensive. This is not the case though. According to the IDEA (Individuals with...
How to Use “Loving Pushes” to Prepare Your Teenager for Adulthood
By Mary Winfield You have heard about Temple Grandin, right? If not, study up! She is amazing. During a time where children with autism were institutionalized, her mother refused to...
Look Before You Leap Into A New Curriculum By Following These 5 Simple Steps
By Peggy Ployhar Whatever reason prompts you to change your homeschooling curriculum, here are 5 steps to help you take a critical look at your choices before you invest your...
