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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…

Do Fidget Spinners Help? 5 Rules for Finding Fidgets To Improve Focus

Do Fidget Spinners Help? 5 Rules for Finding Fidgets To Improve Focus

By Kathy Kuhl For some people, sitting still is so hard that they can’t sit still and listen, think, or do much else. These folks need something to do with their hands to help them keep still and focus. Some people fiddle with a paperclip, click a ballpoint pen, jiggle coins in a pocket, or…

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…

Teaching a Child with Special Needs: Book Review
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Teaching a Child with Special Needs: Book Review

Book review by Kathy Kuhl Judith Munday’s new book is out at last: Teaching a Child with Special Needs at Home and at School. That’s good news for homeschoolers with children with learning challenges. Back in the 1990s, when I was a new homeschooler, Judi was the first expert I heard who understood homeschooling students with special…

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,…

Understand your child’s kind of intelligence
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Understand your child’s kind of intelligence

Book review by Kathy Kuhl of Dr. Kathy Koch’s book 8 Great Smarts: Discover and Nurture Your Child’s Intelligences      “Your child is smart, but does he or she believe it?” When parents come to me for advice at conventions, I often ask about their children’s strengths. Some of us have kids with learning…