The groups description states in part:
Special Needs at Home Swap is a mailing list for the buying, selling or trading of used equipment, programs, and curriculum for children who have learning disabilities or have a “special need” in some way. The list is not just for homeschooling parents of kids with unique challenges, but for [...]
I found some useful special needs resources from homeschool Mom, Melissa Wiley at her Lilting House Blog.
Here are a few of them:
Speech Therapy At Home
Newborn Hearing Screen: A Piece of Advice
Fun With Audiology: Making Ear Molds
Be sure to visit her site to explore these and other interesting homeschool resources.
In case Melissa’s name sounds familiar, in [...]
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I have been looking for some special needs resources for homeschoolers. Here are a few that I have found via a google search.
A-Z Homescool
A-Z Homescool- Special Needs Vendors
About.com
Bay Shore School & Educational
Homeschooling Kids With Disabilities
If you happen to have any you would like to share, please drop me a line by clicking here. [...]
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Recently Janie Bowman wrote to share, A Pocket Manual for Advocates: Information and Resources for Lay Advocates with us and I’m so glad she did because it is definitely one of those resources you will want to bookmark.
Part of the introduction reads:
A Pocket Manual for Advocates is written for:
* Lay advocates.
* Parents [...]
Bright Kids at Home – www.brightkidsathome.com
A practical website geared towards homeschooling and traveling with
gifted and talented students. It includes many tips and ideas about
gifted homeschooling. There are several pages on identifying and
assessing a gifted student at home. There are pages that have ideas
about high school record keeping and navigating through homeschooling
through the teen years. [...]
My younger sister is partially deaf and American Sign Language was extremely helpful way for us to communicate with one another when she was very young. As she grew older her speech improved, but we still use sign occasionally.
Our entire family took classes and I wondered what type of resources [...]
