If you are new to homeschooling, and particularly if you are working with a gifted or struggling learner, you have probably heard the advice to meet your student where they are. But what does this mean in a practical sense, and how does it work? In order to understand how to meet your student where…
When a student is experiencing challenges in the traditional school setting, teachers and staff often resort to special accommodations for that particular student in order that they might continue to learn without disrupting the rest of the class. In addition to these accommodations, additional assistance may be provided to help the student work towards overcoming…
Occupational therapy services, like any professional services, can be expensive. So it is completely understandable for homeschool parents to question whether it will be worth it to pay for an evaluation and treatment from an OT. But can homeschool parents just figure things out on their own? The short answer is yes! Just like many…
You’ve probably heard of occupational therapy before at one time or another. Perhaps an older family member has ended up in rehab after a surgery or hospital stay and received occupational therapy services. Or perhaps someone you know has received outpatient occupational therapy following a hand or arm injury. With these types of prior exposures…
Does the idea of creating and maintaining homeschool records overwhelm you? It shouldn’t. Homeschool records don’t have to be complicated, and in many cases they are primarily for your personal use anyway. So how can you develop a system of homeschool records that works for you? Hopefully these pointers can help you get started. Check…
Handwriting is such an important component of the educational experience, and handwriting struggles can often interfere with a child’s performance in other academic areas that would otherwise seem unrelated because those struggles limit a child’s ability to communicate fluently in writing. But the thing about handwriting skills is they take time to develop, and sometimes…
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the subsequent changes it has caused in K-12 education, has lead to a recent increase in home education, or homeschooling, throughout the United States (Census Bureau, 2021). But home education itself has been around far longer than the pandemic, and the term home education encompasses a variety of philosophies and perspectives…
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