Often, families will choose home schooling because they have ch…..
By Christine M. Field
Often, families will choose home schooling because they have children who cannot cope or thrive within traditional educational environments due to special physical or emotional needs. Homeschooling the Challenging Child addresses these issues offering potential and current home schooling families qualified and expert advice. Experienced home school mom and author Christine Field will offer hope and direction for those seeking to offer their children the best educational opportunities available.
Address disabilities, attention disorders, personality differences, and learning styles, discusses discipline measures, tips for dealing with stress, grief and discouragement, and developing study programs for challenging children, includes information to help parents obtain professional help, support groups, and other such resources.
Other books for home schoolers by Christine Field include Life Skills for Kids, and Help for the Harried Homeschooler.
Other products in the category Home School Helps / Special Needs & Gifted:
Complete-A-Sketch
Vision-Dexterity-Focus -- The key benefit to this title from Melvin Peterman is that is was created specifically to meet vision challenges. Vision-Dexterity-Focus™ is a great all-in-one package and was developed specifically for the challenged learner, with input from parents and vision therapy professionals. This book contains most of the art used in Volumes 1 - 3 of the Complete-A-Sketch series with some new and unique art. It contains orthographic, (flat two-dimensional line art), isometric (three-dimensional art) . . .
Gifted Children At Home -- This practical guide for home schooling families can be one of your best tools to searching out the best possible options for educating your gifted student. Whether your student is currently home schooled, �after schooled,� or enrolled in a traditional school, here are options and hard-earned wisdom from women who�ve �been there, done that.� Feeling frustrated in meeting your child�s educational needs? Take heart! This book will encourage you and give you a firm foundation for making . . .
How To Get Your Child
Off The Refrigerator
and on to Learning -- Homeschooling Highly Distractible, ADHD, or Just Plain Fidgety KidsBy Carol BarnierIn her search for solutions to teach her highly distractible son, Carol developed techniques that are not only fun for all children, but highly successful with any child who struggles with focus. You’ll find may effective and fun solutions to the daily dilemma, “How do I teach my child tomorrow?” Cathy Duffy says “...I think just about all parents would love the help Carol offers for those days when the kids just can’t . . .
Life Skills Activities for Special Children -- Gives parent-teachers over 180 step-by-step lessons with reproducible activity sheets to help special students develop and practice the basic "survival" skills they need for both school and daily living situations. Builds skills in these areas: interpersonal, communication, academic, practical living, vocational, lifestyle choices, and problem-solving. The lessons are primarily intended for upper-elementary-aged students with special learning needs. While skills such as reciting one' name and address . . .
Parenting A Child with Special Needs -- How do I get an accurate diagnosis?
How do I tell other people the news?
How do I care for an infant of toddler with disabilities?
How to I help my child learn and grow?
When should my child leave home? Paperback, 271 Pages
Sight Words/ESL Intro Wrap Ups Kits -- This Intro Kit works great as a beginning reading tool for young readers from K-3 or as a tool to teach non-English speaking students basic concepts. This kit includes 4 sets of Wrap-ups and 2 audio CD's (not cassettes as pictured) to help students with proper pronunciation. There are 480 different words and phrases included.Learning Words covers things at home and school, body parts, clothing, food, people and travel.Talking Basics helps with counting, days of the week, months, emotions and other . . .
Social Skills Activities for
Special Children 2nd Ed. -- The second edition of the best-selling Social Skills Activities for Special Children provides 164 ready-to-use lessons--complete with reproducible worksheets--to help children become aware of acceptable social behavior and develop proficiency in acquiring basic social skills. Each lesson places a specific skill within the context of real-life situations, giving teachers a means to guide students to think about why the social skill is important. The hands-on activity that accompanies each lesson helps . . .
Speechercise Level 1 Music CD -- Help your child improve pronunciation and articulation with songs that make daily speech practice fun and easy. At home, school, or even in the car, follow the Speechercise workout leaders through the musical workout:
Mispronounce a sound in certain words, yet pronounce it clearly in other words
Leave out entire syllables from longer words
Leave off the beginning or ending sounds of words?
Make the /T/ or /K/ sounds incorrectly
Pronounce words differently from situation to situation
Have . . .
Speechercise Level 2 Music CD -- An advanced musical workout for your mouth wtih more songs, drills, and strategies designed to help children develop proper speech and articulation skills. Follow the workout leaders through musical exercises that target:
Tongue and teeth placement
Challenging beginning, middle, and ending consonant sounds
More complex consonant-vowel transitions: f and v, s and z, ch and j, sh and s, th, l, r, and w.
It's more great practice for young children beginning to develop speech habits OR those . . .
Visual Perceptual Skill Building 1 CD -- Visual Perceptual Skill Building develops your student's recognition of letters, words, numbers, and similar/dissimilar objects. It also improves sequencing and visual memory skills. These quick, engaging activities are designed specifically for shorter attention spans. No reading is required. Directions may be read aloud as needed. Each book includes eight progressively more challenging skill sections with pre-tests and post-tests to evaluate students' beginning and ending skill levels.
This book . . .
Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 1 -- Book 1 is for grades PreK - 1.Visual Perceptual Skill Building develops your student's recognition of letters, words, numbers, and similar/dissimilar objects. It also improves sequencing and visual memory skills.
These quick, engaging activities are designed specifically for shorter attention spans. No reading is required. Directions may be read aloud as needed. This book includes eight progressively more challenging skill sections with pre-tests and post-tests to evaluate students' beginning and . . .
Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 2 -- Book 2 is for grades 2-3.Visual Perceptual Skill Building develops your student's recognition of letters, words, numbers, and similar/dissimilar objects. It also improves sequencing and visual memory skills.
These quick, engaging activities are designed specifically for shorter attention spans. No reading is required. Directions may be read aloud as needed. This book includes eight progressively more challenging skill sections with pre-tests and post-tests to evaluate students' beginning and ending . . .
Writing Skills Activities for Special Children -- This lay flat, paperback edition is the book you need to help your elementary student with special needs develop basic writing skills, relate writing to real-life tasks, and explore writing as a creative, enjoyable event! The book includes 135 step-by-step lessons and 269 illustrated activity sheets. It moves from copying words and completing sentences to processing the writing reports and stories, from filling out necessary forms to taking class notes, writing a letter, and addressing an envelope. . . .
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