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Home Schooling the Dyslexic Child By: Lisa Lee
While home schooling a dyslexic child has no shortage of challenges, your task of teaching your dyslexic child at home can become easier and more rewarding with the right tools.
Sure, you’ll still have your share of setbacks, but it’s so rewarding when you finally see those little breakthroughs suddenly develop into major a progression in your child’s comprehension.
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Homeschooling The ADD/ADHD Child By Dawn-Elise Snipes
As homeschool parents, there are many options for teaching our children. I have found the variety out there to actually be overwhelming, but few resources actually meet my needs. My son is gifted, but has ADHD. As a clinician and a professor, I hated seeing him struggle in school. Each day he would tell me he had “Carnitors” (T-Rex’s for the rest of us) in his tummy. After meeting with his teacher several times, it became clear that the school was unable/unwilling to meet his needs to my satisfaction. Kids with ADD/ADHD need a place with few distractions, short bursts of learning followed by physical activity, structure and learning materials tailored to how they learn and learning times scheduled around when they learn best.
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Great Product – Great Giveaway
As a blogger I have lots of resources up my sleeve to keep my blogs updated and interesting. One of those things is Blog Energizer.com 
One this website you get lots of great resources to share with your readers, and today I got word about a fantastic product and they are giving away a great Back to School package. Now, I know what you’re thinking ‘But this is a HOME schooling website, we don’t GO “Back to school’!”. This is true, however, these labels, even the Back to school ones, will be useful even for us homeschooling crowds!







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