Home Schooling and Learning Disability

If you feel that your child suffers from a learning disability that seriously hampers his ability to stick to a routine, then home schooling is your best choice. By choosing to teach your child at home you will be able to constantly supervise them. But he will be gaining a lot of quality education, in spite of his disability. This is rather surprising, considering how children with disabilities are stigmatized in public schools.

Home schooling and learning disability can be a good match because it allows you to give your child one on one attention that they can't get in a public school. Public teachers have to tend to the entire class and don't have much time for one on one interaction, which is why many children with disabilities do poorly in a public school. Even if you send them to a special school designed to work with disable children, they are usually under staffed and can only give a limited amount of one on one attention as they have to help other children as well.

Goal setting is an important part of home schooling a child with disability. Set the number of working hours per week for the child. A child with a disability may have his bad days. Structure the learning hours according to the needs and interests of the child. Use the computer. This way, he will have all the necessary information right at his fingertips while staying within the confines of his home.

Field trips and other educational activities are just as important. Get help from your support group. Visit places of  interest and interact with other children in the group. Take your child out for some activities, so that he can socialize. Let him set his own pace with making friends. This will help in strengthening his self-esteem.

Above all, remember that home schooling and learning disability is just the same, even when your child suffers from a disability. You will just need to look for the right opportunities and the easiest alternatives to achieve the same goals.

 Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.