Featured Links
- Peacemaker Ministries offers help in conflict resolution from a biblical perspective.
I've found Ken Sande's book, The Peacemaker, and Corlette Sande's Young Peacemaker workbooks both very practical and thought-provoking.
- Eide Neurolearning Clinic will tell you more about Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide and their practice in Edmonds, Washington.
People travel across the country to get their advice. Friends here in Virginia say it was worth the trip.
- Homeschooling mother Tammy Glaser blogs about homeschooling her eighteen-year-old daughter with autism and syntactic aphasia.
I had the privilege of interviewing Tammy for my book, and she is a great help.I especially enjoy her book reviews, tips, and video clips.
- Memory and the Brain,
a free, downloadable lecture from The Teaching Company by Professor Jeanette Norden of Vanderbilt University's School of Medicine.
Most of it was over my head, but it was still interesting.
- Free worksheets from Worksheet Library for those days when you need one.
I'm not a huge fan of worksheets (we get bored easily here at the Kuhl Academy), but some kids love them, and some days they can be very handy.
Graphic organizers, holiday worksheets, and more for grades K-8 in all subjects.
I receive no benefit from your clicking these links. You may find them useful. Let me know, please.
Other Links You May Find Helpful
A comparison of Multi-sensory Structured Language reading programs from the International Dyslexia Association.
A New York Times article on the controversy over removing the Asperger's Syndrome diagnosis from the psychiatry's diagnostic manual, lumping it together with PDD/NOS (pervasive developmental dissorder not otherwise specified).
The Struggling Reader is a small business that provides testing materials to help you understand your child's reading difficulties, and related teaching materials.
Sharon C. Hensley, not only wrote a book I reviewed in 2009,
Home Schooling Children with Special Needs, she also runs an umbrella school (independent study program),
Almaden Valley Christian School,
providing an online bookstore and consulting services nationwide. For families who live in California, AVCS offers private school enrollment and other umbrella school services, and a support group.
Carol Barnier, who wrote two books I reviewed, How to Get Your Child Off the Regrigerator and On To Learning and
The Big WHAT NOW Book of Learning Styles, has three websites:
Free Digital Version of Exceptional Parent Magazine
Exceptional Parent Magazine is “the nation’s oldest and most respected monthly publication dedicated to practical, therapeutic and inspirational information for families, educators and healthcare professionals serving the special needs community.”
See a free digital version of the July 2009 issues here.
© 2009 Katherine Kuhl