Tagged: special needs

Students with dyslexia, ADHD, 2e profiles, or IEP histories don't fit the standard transcript grid. Here's how to document what they learned: honestly, legibly, and in a format colleges can read.

When school itself was the source of the problem, rebuilding school at home makes it worse. Here is what the first year looks like for an anxious kid: why deschooling runs longer, how to tell recovery from entrenchment, what to teach in the first 90 days, and how to log a month that fell apart.

Homeschooling kids with ADHD works when you build the day around how ADHD brains actually function. Short focused blocks, movement breaks, hands-on learning, and curricula designed for sustained engagement — drawn from a CBT specialist.

Homeschooling a child with OCD often works better than public school — predictable routines, low sensory load, room for therapy. The structural advantages plus what to do about compulsions, perfectionism, and avoidance.

Homeschooling a child with dyslexia is one of the most consistent success stories in special-needs homeschooling — when families commit to Orton-Gillingham instruction, get a real evaluation, and stop trying to teach reading the way public schools do.

Homeschooling a child with Down syndrome works when you lean into the cognitive profile that's actually there: visual-spatial strengths, multisensory learning, repetition, and patience with timing. Here's the curriculum approach, the resources that work, and what to realistically expect.