Homeschooling and Special Needs

These links compiled by Meredith Warshaw from her Uniquely Gifted website of online resources for families with gifted/special needs children.

Many of us have found that the best way to meet the needs of our twice-special children is to do it ourselves. Homeschooling can be a wonderful way to meet both the gifted needs and other special needs of our children.

• A to Z Home's Cool Special Needs Legal Advocacy page has a large list of links to sites related to understanding your legal rights when homeschooling a special needs child.

• Positively ADD - Parenting and Unschooling is a site with interesting information and lots of links.

• Thought.co has a list of resources for special educators

• Homeschooling LD/ADD Children: Great Idea or Big Mistake? article by Suzanne H. Stevens

• Homeschooling Gifted Students: An Introductory Guide for Parents by Jacque Ensign

Additional Resources

• Federation for Children with Special Needs. From their website: "The Federation is a center for parents and parent organizations to work together on behalf of children with special needs and their families. We can help! Organized in 1975 as a coalition of parent groups representing children with a variety of disabilities, the Federation operates a Parent Center in Massachusetts which offers a variety of services to parents, parent groups, and others who are concerned with children with special needs."

• Americans With Disabilities Act provides an overview of laws, and questions and answers related to disability discrimination.

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