Homeschool Your Special Needs Child
With In the Hands of a Child Curriculum

All of our children are special.

However, some children have extra special needs such as autism, ADHD, giftedness, or learning disabilities.

Well, I believe that homeschooling is the best way to teach your special needs child!

Homeschooling provides a warm and caring environment in which to teach your child one-on-one in any way that is effective for them. You can design your own Individualized Education Program (IEP) for your child with appropriate therapies and treatments. In addition, homeschooling allows you to select curriculum to match the needs of your child.

Now, you may want to know what is the best curriculum for your special needs child.

I can tell you that I have had tremendous success with the curriculum from In the Hands of a Child for my 14 year old son with Asperger’s Syndrome and ADHD, my 12 year old gifted daughter, and my 9 year old daughter with PDD-NOS and ADHD.

Let me tell you why this curriculum from In the Hands of a Child has been so successful for us!

This curriculum is a hands-on curriculum that can be used in many ways for various ages and various needs! Also, it fits perfectly with the Charlotte Mason and the unit study approach to learning.

In the Hands of a Child offers project packs with text and lap book activities, guide books with just text, and research packs with questions and topics to research in books or on the internet.

My elementary daughter loves the lap books. She helps me cut out the activities. Then, she works on finding the information in the text. If you had a younger child, you could read the text instead. Next, she writes the information on the appropriate activity. She then places the activity on the lap book. She tells me about the project as it is completed.

All of this hands-on activity is perfect for her since she is a mostly kinesthetic with visual learner. The fine motor skills (cutting, writing, gluing) are a terrific and fun therapy for her. She really learns the material by using the information in a creative manner. The activities keep her interested in the material for a longer length of time.

My middle school daughter loves using the project packs and guide books for note booking. She uses many of the packaged activities, but places them on pages in her notebook instead of on a lap book. She adds other creative activities and written topics to additional pages of her notebook. Then, she orally presents her finished notebook to the family.

She is mostly a mostly visual with kinesthetic learner. I encourage her to think outside of the box and to use her creativity and giftedness with note booking.

My high school son would prefer just to be done as quickly as possible! He is a no nonsense and direct type of guy. Since he is a very dominant visual learner, we significantly reduce the amount of kinesthetic experiences for him.

We are working on refining his writing and oral skills. He reads the concise but thorough text, and does some additional research. He takes notes on the material and organizes an outline. Then, he prepares a report and oral presentation.

As you can see, each topic can be easily adapted from elementary through high school levels and for various special needs. Also, you can proceed at the appropriate pace for your own child. In addition, you can choose from the multitude of topics in any order to meet the needs and interests of your child.

I highly recommend the hands-on approach to learning with the In the Hands of a Child curriculum for your special needs child.

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