Help for Special Needs and Learning Disabilities
If you have additional resources to add to this page, please email your suggestions to info@cfspoway.org.
If your child struggles with learning, there are many resources (far more than listed here) available to help.
We highly recommend beginning with HSLDA. If you are a member, please call (540) 338-5600 or email one of their special needs consultants. They will direct you to resources, share teaching tips, and encourage you! - http://www.hslda.org/strugglinglearner/default.asp
Christian Home Educators of California has a resource page for homeschooling with special needs:
http://www.cheaofca.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=1217&parentID=532
NATHHAN National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network -Christian Families Homeschooling Special Needs Children http://www.nathhan.com/ Special Children - Special Blessings (SCSB) support group is a local NATHHAN group supporting special needs families in San Diego. Contact millsfolk@cox.net for more information.
These local groups are dedicated to special needs:
Grown My Way - Learning Center for children with special needs specifically autism. http://www.growmyway.org/
Decoding Dyslexia - CA A dyslexia support group using Barton or Orton-Gillingham based curricula . We meet once a month off I-56 and Black Mountain. Find us on Facebook at DD San Diego Events and Support. https://www.facebook.com/groups/DDCASanDiego/
Social Fusion Center - Learning Center for children with special needs and the integration of social and functional skills.
Online groups for LDs that have been recommended in the SD homeschooling community:
Dyslexia Support -- for parents of dyslexic children https://www.facebook.com/groups/350215218322728/
Learning Ally Parent Chat https://www.facebook.com/groups/LearningAllyParentChat/
Dysgraphia https://www.facebook.com/groups/Dysgraphia/
Dyslexia / Specific Learning Disabilities https://www.facebook.com/groups/Dyslexia.Advocacy/
Understood aims to give parents a direct path to the support they need most to make them feel more confident and capable, less frustrated and alonehttps://www.understood.org/en
Learning Abled Kids - support and resources for homeschooling children with LDs - http://learningabledkids.com/
Articles and resources from Dianne Craft about educating children with special needs: http://www.diannecraft.org/
Irlen Syndrome (perceptual processing disorder) http://irlen.com
Curricula and Resources:
Nessy.com provides reading and specialized support for dyslexia and struggling readers. Online dyslexia screening and assessement and educator/parent training tools.
Remedia Publications produces supplementary materials for teachers, parents and students http://www.rempub.com/
Learning Ally provides narrated textbooks and literature to assist students. http://www.learningally.org/AboutUs.aspx
Verticy Learning - curriculum designed for the struggling learner http://www.verticylearning.org/
Memoria Press Special Needs Classical Curriculum - http://www.memoriapress.com/curriculum/special-needs
Dancing Bears from Sound Foundation (UK) - designed to teach dyslexic children to read and spell http://www.soundfoundations.co.uk/about-sound-foundations/#
LibriVox: Free domain audio books https://librivox.org/
Idea Chain = reading comprehension for students with LDs http://www.understandmore.com/idc3.htm
Visualing and Verbalizing - reading comprehension for students with LDS
http://lindamoodbell.com/program/visualizing-and-verbalizing-program
Ronit Bird - math for students struggling with dsylexia and dyscalculia - http://www.ronitbird.com/
Touch Math - math for students with dyscalculia http://www.touchmath.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=homeschool.welcome
These curricula providers have been reviewed as suitable and adaptable for use with students with LDs due to their media rich content and/or text to speech features or highly visual/manipulative based methods:
Odysseyware https://www.odysseyware.com/
Adaptive Curriculum http://www.adaptivecurriculum.com/us/
Monarch https://www.aop.com/monarch_overview
Crewton Ramone's House of Math http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/
Books:
How to Homeschool Your Struggling Learner by Kathy Kuhl http://amzn.com/0981938906
ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life by Judith Kolberg http://amzn.com/1583913580
Home Schooling Children with Special Needs by Sharon Hensley http://amzn.com/1632321785
Homeschooling the Child with Autism: Answers to the Top Questions Parents and Professionals Ask by Patricia Schetter http://amzn.com/0470292563
Homeschooling the Child with ADD (or Other Special Needs): Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the Child with Learning Difference by Lenore Colacion Hayes http://amzn.com/0761535691
Homeschooling the Challenging Child: A Practical Guide by Christine Field http://amzn.com/0805430784
Homeschooling the Child With Asperger Syndrome by Lisa Pyles http://amzn.com/1843107619?
CFS Parents have been helped by sessions at Brain Highways: http://www.brainhighways.com/
For free Speech evaluation & therapy go to this site: http://sdscottishritelanguagecenter.org/
Free Vision Therapy Exercises: http://www.eyeq.com.au/staff-resources/vision-training/eye-tracking/
Other helps:
Elena Mendoza 858-442-4255 Her specialty is with dyslexia. www.integratively-learning.com
Kellee Blauser (former homeschooling mom in San Diego), Certified Barton Tutor
www.MsKellee.com MsKellee@hotmail.com (850)218-7531
Learn about the Barton method here: http://www.dys-add.com/
Heart and Hooves Therapy. We offer one on one sessions with mini-horses for any age and ability throughout San Diego. http://www.heartsandhoovestherapy.org/
Alma Glavin, License Brain Gym Instructor/Consultant (Escondido), 760-525-5935, almagalvin@cox.net
Diane Hornbeak (Brain Gym, Vision Therapy and other therapies) 760-230-2213 ddcorinne@gmail.com http://www.denisehornbeak.com/
Social Fusion Center (PT/OT/Speech and social and life skills training for children with autism and other LDs) http://www.socialfusioncenter.com/
National Association for Child Development
NACD.org 801-621-8606 Their specialty is neurodevelopmental evaluations for the purpose of providing individualized, parent directed programs.
La Jolla Learning Works - specialize in teaching reading, writing, math, spelling, and study skills for students with learning disabilities, like dyslexia. http://ljlearningworks.com/
Rachel Herman (homeschooling mom in SD), certified Barton tutor, dyslexia specialist, Learning for All Tutoring
619-453-3620 www.learningforallsd.com
Kimberley Palmiotto, Psy.D., ABSNP, ATR. (educational psychologist)
Coastal Educational Services www.CoastalEducationalServices.com 800-820-8829
Step Ahead Educational Services - specialize in working with students with mild to moderate learning disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders (Carlsbad) 858-384-1145 http://www.stepaheadsandieogo.com
CFS Poway Members who are also specialists:
Rebecca Shue 760-294-9030 beccars@cox.net
I am a reading specialist (as well as homeschool Mom). I help families who have children with reading difficulties either due to dyslexia or any other learning disability. I specialize in the Lindamood-Bell programs but I am familiar with and can use many others. I provide direct tutoring to the student and/or consultation and curriculum design for the family. I am located in South Escondido at the Via Rancho Parkway exit.
Joe You 858-674-5699 jylending@gmail.com
www.academicassociates.org (website for reading program that I use) Reading Instruction (learning to read, struggling readers, dyslexia), writing, math