One of the biggest challenges for homeschool parents is teaching reading, and for a homeschool parent with children who have special needs, that big challenge can seem almost insurmountable for many. Teaching Special Needs Children to Read in the Homeschool can have extra challenges too, as you need to understand what the learning block is,…
Category Archives: vision therapy
Eye Patching Fun? Yes it is!
What is eye patching? Eye Patching is where a child wears a patch over their strong eye to help correct vision in their weaker eye. There are a few different reasons a doctor prescribes eye patching, and I am not going into that here, but I am going to give you a few ways to…
Technology in Home Education & Beyond
The use of technology in home education and beyond is a relatively new idea. As the world around us becomes more technological, we as homes educators have a responsibility to make sure we teach technology in our children’s home education, to help them compete in the technological age. Teaching technology in home education does not need to…
Hard Days in Homeschool~Facing the reality of special needs and learning disabilities
This is hard to write, but there are days that homeschooling is so hard, you want to crawl in a hole. Why? Some days no matter how you explain a concept, you feel as you are failing, as a teacher in teaching your child something new. If you happen to ask someone else who isn’t…
Math Mammoth Light Blue First Grade Series
Math has always been one of those subject that has been hard for me to teach, but I get most of it. I have found something that works well for my older students, but for my younger students, I had been struggling. Math Mammoth has changed all that though. I am reviewing the Math Mammoth…
And Another Change…Another Child with Vision Challenges.
In December 2010, we found out our then five year old had amblyopia and strambismus. She had been to the optometrist at the age of three, so she was due for an exam. Her condition at the time left her with 20/400 vision, which is legally blind. At her last exam in April, she had…
Organizational Week~Getting the Homeschool Ready
We all have them, days when we walk through the house and want to turn tail and run because there are messes everywhere. As we move through the house, we notice there is very little that can be done with these messes… What? Where did it all come from? Typically around here, it means we…
New Series Starting Up Next Week for those with Struggling Learners. Helping Your Learning Abled Child.
I am excited to let my readers know about an opportunity that my family has been blessed with. I contacted Learning Link Technologies after another blogger contacted me explaining the company was looking for review bloggers with struggling learners. Since I have three with different issues, I contacted them, and we are now on our…
Homeschool Mother’s Journal~April 30
In my life this week… We completed four days of school. Though I didn’t get everything done, I would have liked too. This was one of those, God plans and we follow His guidance and come out stronger in the end times. We had a doctor appointment on Wednesday and attended a library sale on…
Go Go Kabongo~Review
GoGo Kabongo offers exciting online brain games that help 4 to 7 year olds build the cognitive skills that are essential to reading. Our games are based in proven cognitive development research to help kids become stronger, more confident readers. Originally launched in classrooms, Kabongo games have been enthusiastically embraced by teachers and students alike….
Homeschool Sanity in the Special Needs Homeschool Family
When you are a homeschool family with a special needs child, there comes a time that you find what works. The sooner the better. There are many families with more then one special needs child. Our family is blessed—yes, I do mean blessed, to be one of those families. We have one child with dysgraphia,…
See-N-Read~ A helpful tool for those who struggle with reading~Review
Do you have a child with vision issues? Struggling Reader? Tracking problems? Do they skip lines, words or otherwise struggle when reading more then a few words or a sentence? See-N-Read is a flexible little gray plastic sheet with a clear strip. You lay this over the reading page with the clear strip over the…
Missing the Signs. Children with Vision Issues.
It has again happened. We missed the signs, ignored them, wrote them off, or whatever it is. We didn’t do it on purpose, we weren’t the only ones who didn’t notice. Our five year old has severe vision issues. Two years ago she had a complete vision exam, all was normal. We were told to…
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