Home-Schooling Aspergers Children

By Mark Hutten, M.A.
If you choose to home school your youngster with Aspergers, you might run across some extra issues in finding the right curriculum. This article will help you get started.

More and more moms and dads are making the choice to home school their kids with Aspergers. There are countless resources available for choosing the curriculum that best meets their needs.

If you will be purchasing curriculum, as opposed to creating your own, it is best to consider several packages before making a final decision. There are many wonderful companies which offer special needs curriculum. If you make a purchase before researching thoroughly, you may overlook a program that would have been more suited to your youngster’s needs.

Visit your local library or bookstore. Many informative books have been written on this subject. Read the recommendations of other moms and dads. Find out what worked well for them and what didn’t.

Join a home school group, either locally or online. Moms and dads are always willing to share their thoughts on curriculum they have used and how their kids benefited from it.

Although joining an online home school group may not be as ‘hands on’ as joining one in your area, it may be more advantageous, in this particular situation. Chances are, if you do a search, you will be able to locate a home school group that caters to kids with Aspergers.

Some local Autism organizations may lend out or help families purchase educational materials, if cost is a factor.

Visit websites geared toward teachers and lesson planning. They are easily located by performing a simple search, using your favorite search engine. Many have forums that you can join, where you can get answers to all of your curriculum-related questions.

There are many websites that provide printable worksheets and teaching aids, for kids. You will find that a large number of these sites have been created by Moms (and sometimes Dads) who have special needs kids, themselves. These moms and dads are usually more than happy to suggest curriculum options that have worked well, in their situation.

By doing a bit of preliminary research, you will have no problem finding teaching material for your youngster with Aspergers.


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