Autism-World

Q:Over the summer, one of my friends moved to a different town, and therefore had to transfer her children to a different school. Her middle son has been diagnosed as autistic, and had a wonderful school program in their last town, but the new town has little to no resources for helping special needs children.

He has been placed back into preschool, and she was told that they could only school him for 4 hours a week. In their last town, he was in school half days 4 days a week, so only going 4 hours a week is a HUGE step backwards, and she is considering homeschooling him in addition to what the school can do for him to kind of fill in the gaps. I was wondering if any of you knew of some good hard copy books or resources that she could use? Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer:

Keep him is school for kids with autism need to learn how to work with others and school will do that, but i do think she is on the right track in wanting him to learn at home. People with autism need to be taught in and out of school.

Here are Homeschooling Resources:

1. National Home Education Network
2. Help Your Child Explore Science
3. Natural Child Project
4. Family Unschoolers Network
5. Homeschool Groups
6. The Highschool Homeschooling Page
7. Homeschool Headlines
8. Home School Teachers Lounge
9. The Home School Zone

http://www.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/education…

HOME SCHOOLING.

http://www.homeschool.com/

http://www.hslda.org

http://homeschooling.about.com/od/curric…

http://www.homefires.com/

Homeschool.com also has the following information available free of charge:

http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/inde…

http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/…

http://www.home-schooling-advice.net/…

http://www.canteach.ca/links/linkhomesch…

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/p…

http://www.teachnlearn.org/index.htm…

Wish this helps.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 at 10:45 pm and is filed under Ask and answer, Parent Resources.