Multi-Sensory Materials for Individual Learning Styles
Learning the phonics and rules of spelling will help children learn to spell the greatest amount of words. However, sometimes children get stuck on a word and just can't seem to get it right despite knowing the phonics and the rules associated with the word. This is when a visualization technique can help with their … Continue reading Spelling Help: A Visualization Technique
Writing is one of the most challenging skills children must learn throughout their school years. As students move toward adulthood, they will be expected to convey their thoughts through writing more and more. Once, a student reaches college and the work place and becomes an adult member of their community, writing is the main way … Continue reading How to Help Your Struggling Writer
Reading non-fiction books is a completely different experience than reading a story. Often when children learn to read, they have had much less experience with non-fiction books. While many children find these books interesting, they can also find them confusing. Children may not fully comprehend all the information the book has to offer since it … Continue reading Help Your Children Understand Non-Fiction Books
I talked in our last post, 5 Simple Ways to Help Your Child Follow Directions, about how to modify the environment and the wording of directions to help your child be more successful in following directions. However, it is also a good idea to strengthen the underlying listening skills so you don't have to modify … Continue reading 4 Strategies to Strengthen Listening Skills
Does your child have difficulty following directions? Now, I don't mean the strong-willed child who understands what you said, but wants to exert his or her own independence. But, the child who is fairly compliant, but just seems to not understand what you say or starts to follow a direction and then gets lost in … Continue reading 5 Simple Ways to Help Your Child Follow Directions
Did you decide to homeschool because your child was distracted in a large classroom setting? That was one of our main reasons for starting to homeschool. However, I found that even though my son was less distracted at home than in a large classroom, I wouldn't exactly describe him as 'focused'. Here are some tools … Continue reading Tools to Help Your Homeschooler Focus
These days, it seems many children have difficulties reading situations, responding to people and situations appropriately, and being flexible thinkers. Sometimes, these children have been diagnosed with ADHD, autism or a related disorder and sometimes not. So how do we help children develop these social skills so they can function better in the world around … Continue reading Targeting Social Skills in Your Homeschool
You often hear parents joke that they wish their child came with an instruction manual. Ok, maybe it is not always a joke! When you are parenting a child with some kind of special needs, though, you may feel like you need several volumes of instruction manuals! We have found this to be true in … Continue reading 9 Books To Help You Parent Children with ADHD
I think most of us know that movement is important to helping all children learn, especially those that have trouble focusing on their learning activities. In fact, this was one of the reasons we chose to homeschool, so that our children didn't have to sit at a desk or table for long stretches of time. … Continue reading How to Use Movement to Help Your Children Learn
I was on Amazon recently looking at games to help my sons with their visual processing skills and ended up down a rabbit trail as I often do. And I stumbled upon a 'brain game', developed by a developmental optometrist, that said it would help improve visual processing, sequential processing, pattern recognition, working memory, and … Continue reading A Brain Game to Improve Your Child’s Working Memory, Attention and Visual Processing Skills
Does your child or a child you love struggle with language or auditory processing skills? Our language skills are important to express what we feel, what we would like to happen, and to describe situations. They involve understanding the meaning of words, how they are associated with each other and how to put them together … Continue reading 12 Gift Ideas for Children to Build Language and Listening Skills
Does your child or a child you love struggle with visual processing skills? These are skills that our brain uses to make sense of what we see around us. They are critical to learning in all areas of life, but are particularly important to learning math, reading, and writing. There are some fun ways to … Continue reading 14 Gift Ideas for Children with Visual Processing Difficulties