NATHHAN
NATHHAN
NATHHAN'S Goal and Purpose: To encourage homeschooling families with special needs children, in ways that glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and equip parents to confidently raise their children with special needs or disabilities. Click here to see the NATHHAN website.
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Other Resources
www.spanmass.org Special Needs Advocacy Network
www.masspac.org Massachusetts Parent Advisory Councils
www.fcsn.org Federation for Children with Special Needs
www.concordspedpac.org Concord MA Parent Advisory Council
www.ldonline.org Learning Disabilities Online
www.uniquelygifted.org Uniquely Gifted: Resources for Gifted
www.ahem.info/index.htm AHEM (Advocates for Home Education in Massachusetts). They have a document about homeschooling special needs children and pulling them out of a school, once they have an IEP. Please contact them or Adrienne at adriennerob@yahoo.com for details (The document is too long for to post on this site!)
www.wrightslaw.com A site that details the law concerning homeschooling kids with special needs.
derendapitzelle@yahoo.com local contact for Linda Kane’s organization. Ms. Kane spoke last year about Special Needs at the MassHOPE convention.
www.Joyceherzog.com Will speak at the 2010 MassHOPE convention, on homeschooling children with Special Needs. She has written many books about homeschooling, some of which are about this topic.
www.autism.about.com - part of NY Times site. Written by a homeschool mom about homeschooling an autistic child.
HSLDA
Special needs coordinators: Where else can you talk to a professional about your child’s special needs in learning, just by picking up the phone? This is a very valuable service for HSLDA members. There are three special needs/struggling learner professionals available at HSLDA to answer your questions, and guide you on your way to make your child’s learning successful.
Legal advice: State-by-state laws, testing issues, progress expectations, and transferring IEP’s from the public school setting are just a few of the areas of legal advice that are available to HSLDA members, along with all the other general membership benefits.
Rental of skills tests to determine grade levels: HSLDA has copies of the Brigance Skills test available for you to rent to find the achievement levels of your child at home. Other informal tests are also available through your special needs/struggling learner coordinators.
Other Links About Homeschooling Special Needs Children:
Aut-2B-Home CIN's Christian Homeschool Forum: Homeschooling Your Special Needs Child Helpful Links: Special Education--Homeschool Christian.com Homeschooling Kids With Disabilities Information & Support IEP (Individualized Education Program) Overview of ADA, IDEA & Section 504 Special needs family friendly fun Speech & language therapy: your child's educational rights 10 Tips For Homeschool Survival (HS Special-Needs Kids) The Whole Child - For Parents - Everybody's Special Wrightslaw - Special Education Law