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Homeschooling in Kindergarten with Special Needs

Homeschooling in Kindergarten with Special Needs

by Kathy Kuhl     Can you homeschool a small child with severe disabilities for kindergarten? It’s not for everyone. However, sometimes it’s the best option, and I’ve met several families who’ve done it successfully. There are advantages. You have more flexibility to adapt the schedule than a schoolteacher does, working around therapies, doctors’ appointments, and…

College Accommodations and Self-Advocacy Part I

College Accommodations and Self-Advocacy Part I

By Kathy Kuhl Can your child with learning challenges make it through college? When you are homeschooling a ten-year-old who cannot read or a twelve-year-old who still struggles with math facts, thinking about college seems unrealistic. College can look like just one more goal your child may not reach. Self-advocacy is one key to success–whether…

Money Skills for Teens

Money Skills for Teens

by Kathy Kuhl Part 3 of a series on life skills (which began here). My kid bought a $36 soda Remember several years ago, when banks got bad publicity for charging $35 overdraft fees on debit cards? For struggling learners those fees were especially painful. Some consumers thought that a debit card purchase would be…

Your child can solve linear equations using beans

Your child can solve linear equations using beans

By Kathy Kuhl Today we’ll finish looking at bean algebra, a simple way to make algebra concrete. We’ll start using negative numbers with our bean algebra. (This 4-part series began here.) Often we rush our children into abstraction too soon when we teach math. But if our children practice at length with concrete objects, illustrate their discoveries,…

Talk Handouts

Handouts from Kathy’s talks All Handouts except Math: High School Planning for Your Out-of-the-Box Learner Collegebound, but struggling: Tools for success Help distractible students succeed Homeschooling/Teaching Children with Learning Challenges Homeschooling Children with Special Needs Is School Working for Your Child? Maximizing Learning for Distractible Students Memory Boosters Planning homeschool with learning challenges Raising Never-Give-Up…

Talk Handouts

Handouts from Kathy’s talks All Handouts except Math: High School Planning for Your Out of the Box Learner Collegebound, but struggling: Tools for success Help distractible students succeed Homeschooling/Teaching Children with Learning Challenges Homeschooling Children with Special Needs Is School Working for Your Child? Maximizing Learning for Distractible Students Memory Boosters Planning homeschool with learning…

Kathy’s workshop descriptions

Kathy Kuhl’s workshops Kathy speaks at large and small events internationally. Her most popular workshops: Help Distractible Students Succeed Is your child’s mind a million miles from your lesson? Learn how to change your homeschool to curb distractibility, help your child improve his or her focusing power, and make your homeschool more friendly to that…

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Talks

Talks

Kathy Kuhl: Upcoming Talks June 13: Special Needs Homeschool Conference Kathy is giving three workshops in Pennsylvania, at CHAP’s special needs conference. Join us on June 13, and consider staying for their general homeschool convention June 13-15, all held at Elizabethtown College, near Lancaster. Other special needs homeschool speakers include Hal and Melanie Young (two…