special needs

Educators have not been able to agree on what dyslexia really is. Some authorities believe that it is strictly a language processing problem, involving the distinguishing of sounds of letters. This is why they cannot remember phonics sounds to decode a word. Others believe that it is a visual/...

Edited and rewritten by Jane Gambill, Adrianne Elbe and Buffi Crouch of the ICHE Special Needs Committee.

Illinois is the most free state for home education. It is not a legal requirement that a homeschooling family prepare a formal, written, Individualized Education Plan (IEP)...

Are you the parent of a special needs child? Do you look with longing at the homeschool support groups your friends are involved in, yet feel overwhelmed at the prospects of going with your extra special child? Do you attend yet feel like you don’t quite fit in because your...

I want to give you some encouragement as you began another school year.

I have discovered that there are three things that are common to parents, especially moms, of special needs children. They are grief, a sense of inadequacy, and guilt. We grieve over our loss and that...

I was in tears when my mother answered her telephone that cold February morning. My two year old son, Macklin, was screaming and crying in the background, while my four year old daughter, Evelyn, was trying to comfort him. I felt nausea sweep over me . . . gratefully I was only a few more weeks...

In the months just before I began to write Learning in Spite of Labels, I heard five different speakers on the subject of learning disabilities. They defined many words, discussed much theory and gave many interpretations of the law. Practical information or teaching techniques that might work...

The number of families home schooling their special needs children is growing every year. Having been involved in the evolving ministry to these families in Illinois, since Illinois Christian Home Educators held its first special needs workshop at its annual convention in 1999, I have watched...