Tips for Homeschooling a Child with Dyslexia
Taken from http://www.hsclassroom.net/tips-for-homeschooling-a-child-with-dyslexia/
The following is a post from contributing writer, Kris Bales of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers.
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Homeschooling a child with dyslexia can be challenging – for you and for them. I don’t mean “challenging” in a way that suggests it’s a horrible thing because dyslexic kids have many amazing strengths. It can be challenging, though, in letting go of your vision of what school “should” look like and providing a learning-rich environment for a kid who doesn’t learn in typical ways.
The tips I’ll be sharing are from the perspective of a mom teaching dyslexic high school and middle school students, so some of them may work better for older-elementary students and up.
As he was finishing the Lexercise online dyslexia therapy program and we were preparing to embark on “life after therapy,” my son’s dyslexia tutor told me that, as a homeschooling mom, I was in the unique position to give my son exactly what he needed most – one-on-one teaching.
Some of the tips I’ll share with you are things she suggested, going forward, and some are things I’d been doing naturally anyway. (more…)