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From:	molly (70.62.137.163)
Subject:	Re: Help @ wits end. Homeschooling dyslexia 10 yr old
Date:	November 16, 2008 at 8:24 am PST

In Reply to: Re: Help @ wits end. Homeschooling dyslexia 10 yr old posted by Teri on November 4, 2008 at 10:48 pm:

Hi Teri, I have a 24 yo son I homeschooled through high school. He has asberger's which is: autistic behaviors (rocking, etc.) adhd, didn't speak until he was 4 and only then with therapy. He now owns and operates his own mechanics business. I am so thankful that we did not send him to public school. The other children would have destroyed his self-esteem and because he had language problems, he struggled with writing and spelling. the one thing about aspbergers is that the children can learn to read well but struggle with the rest of the writing issues. Public school does not have the answers for the learning problems these children have. Here in ohio (I believe it is the same in other states but not 100% sure) dyslexia is not considered a learning disability, they don't have to test for it and the child doesn't have a sp. ed. class. BTW, we now have adopted 2 9 yo's from china and our younger daughter has screened for dyslexia. I am studying up on dyslexia to learn how to help her. If you google Susan Barton, she has a great website on dyslexia. What we did with our son is taught to his strengths. He loved taking things apart (and eventually learned how to put things back together) and loved tools. He earned points for working on school work which he was able to trade in for trips to the hardware store (cost us nothing but time). Eventually, for christmas and birthday presents, we bought him tools. we bought high quality tools that he was able to keep for a lifetime. He always took good care of them. Friends from our co-op started asking him to work on their cars and by word of mouth his business grew.

For schoolwork, his reading curriculum was chilton's manuals. They were of high interest to him and are considered a college level reader. I read history and geography to him but he absorbed very little as it was not high interest. Now that he is an adult, he still isn't interested but it is something that he doesn't use. He does know how to look up info in the encyclopedia, so when he needs the info that's where he goes.

Ther eis much more that we did differently than conventional school and if you are interested, email me and I will share with you what we did :)

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