- Homeschooling Gifted Students
ERIC EC Digest #E543 February 1998. Author: Jacque Ensign. During the last 20 years, increasing numbers of families in the United States have chosen to educate their children at home or
outside the conventional school environment. Current estimates range from 500,000 to 1.2 million students (Lines, 1991, 1995; Ray,
1996). Of that number, a significant percentage of families have chosen homeschooling as the educational option for their gifted children.
(Added: Tue Aug 21 2001)
- HomeschoolLI · The Homeschool Language-Impaired forum
The Homeschool Language-Impaired forum is open to people who have an interest in educating language-impaired or learning-disabled children. This mailing list is a place where you can contribute your ideas & practical educational techniques which you've found to be successful & fun for your children. It is also a place where you can find support & share your ideas & concerns.
(Added: Thu Jan 03 2002)
- Personal Computers Help Gifted Students Work Smart
By Geoffrey Jones. Since the early 1970's, schools across the nation have been adding computers and instruction in computing to programs for students of all ages and abilities. Gifted and talented students in most schools now have access to computers in their classrooms, and an increasingly large percentage of these students have home computers. As the goals for technology education and the promises of educational change have grown, the hardware and the software used in both schools and homes have improved steadily.
(Added: Wed Jul 18 2001)
- Ten Steps to Successfully Homeschooling Children with Special Needs
If you are a parent of a child with special needs and considering homeschooling, you undoubtedly have many questions and concerns. You're not alone, but you probably know more about homeschooling than you realize. For example, you've spent the first five years of your child's life as his most important "teacher." In addition, if your child has been in public school, you've probably spent many evenings and weekends helping your child do homework. Guess what? You've been homeschooling.
(Added: Thu Jan 03 2002)
- The Special Education Department
The Special Education Department
This department is still small, but I hope what is here will help you with the challenges of teaching very special
children. All of my children have physical and learning challenges, and I have learning disabilities myself, so I know a
lot about this area of teaching. I'm not an expert though-just someone forced to learn. Most of my lesson plans
throughout this site are hands-on and broken down to the smallest steps. They usually work for learning disabled
children for this reason. Here are the basics of what I've learned:
(Added: Fri Aug 10 2001)
- Tools for Parents of Children
In this material you will be exploring your feelings concerning your child with special needs. You will
review how well you are coping with the diagnosis and grieving the losses involved. You will analyze
how the child's problems has affected your bonding. You will review the lifelong needs of your child
and how to manage your behaviors in response to your child's behaviors.
(Added: Sun Jul 08 2001)
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