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Resources for Homeschooling And Special Needs

August 12, 2014 By Heather Greutman Leave a Comment

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Today I am sharing some resources for homeschool and special needs that I have here on my site. If you are coming over from the Homeschooling & Special Needs Blog Tour, then welcome. I am so glad you are here today.

Below you will find some of my favorites posts, resources, printables and ebooks that I provide for homeschooling and special needs here on GRB.

Resources and tips for homeschooling your child with special needs. www.GoldenReflectionsBlog.com

 

Resources for Homeschooling Kids with Special Needs

For those of you who don't know me, before I became a stay at home mom to my daughter I worked for 7 years as an Occupational Therapy Assistant. Four of those years I was in the public school system working with special needs kids from preschool through high-school.

I love sharing resources and ideas for special needs kids here on my site. What is great about kids activities is that ANY child can benefit from most of the activities I share about, no matter if they have special needs or not.

Here are some of the resources I have here on GRB specifically for homeschool and special needs.

A 5 week series from an Occupational Therapy standpoint on behavior vs. sensory. www.GoldenReflectionsBlog.com

By far, the most popular series on my site is my Behavior vs. Sensory series. This is a 5 week series where I look at things that could be affecting your child's behavior and sensory processing. Here are the topics and posts in that series.

  • Is it Behavior? Or is it Sensory? 
  • The Vestibular System
  • How Diet Affects Behavior
  • How Sleep and Screen time Affect Behavior 
  • Discipline and Sensory Processing Problems

Sensory Processing Disorder Series

What is Sensory Processing Disorder?

  • What is Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) 
  • Ideas for SPD pt. 1
  • Ideas for SPD pt. 2

Autism Series

Resources & Encouragement for Families of Children with Autism | www.GoldenReflectionsBlog.com

 

  • What is Autism?
  • Diagnosis & Treatment Options 
  • Therapy Ideas
  • A Homeschool Mom's Perspective of Autism 
  • Resources for Families of Children with Autism

Homeschool Resources And Activity Ideas for Kids with Special Needs

Here on GRB I focus mostly on fine motor, sensory, and handwriting activities. I have written numerous activity ideas for each and I also have an ebook on handwriting, Basic Shapes for Beginners.

A list of sensory activities for children from an Occupational Therapy Assistant and homeschool mom blogger! | www.GoldenReflectionsBlog.com

On my Sensory Activities for Kids page, I have links to every single sensory activity or post I have written about here on GRB and also guest posts I have written. I have it divided by age ranges, themes, and seasonal activities.

Activities for Fine Motor Skills Development

On my Fine Motor Activities for Development  page I also have links to all the fine motor posts I have shared. These include free printables, a link to developmental sequence of fine motor skills printable, activity ideas, and more.

Tips and suggestions from an Occupational Therapy perspective on how to improve handwriting skills with kids. www.GoldenReflectionsBlog.com

And my How to Improve Handwriting Skills with Kids page has links to all the resources I have written on handwriting skills for both typical and children with special needs.

Basic shapes for beginners ebook. www.GoldenReflectionsBlog.com

My ebook, Basic Shapes for Beginners is a hands-on approach to pre-writing strokes for preschoolers. It is designed for ages 2-5, however if you have a child who struggles with handwriting or is behind in fine motor skills these activities can definitely be beneficial to them.

All of the activities are hands-on and focus on building excellent fine motor skills and mastering pre-writing lines and strokes which aid in helping good handwriting skills.

I also have a page of all my free printables here on GRB. Many of these are handwriting and fine motor related.

Subscribe to Golden Reflections Blog

When you subscribe to my blog news feed and twice monthly newsletter, you will receive 3 different sets of printables once you confirm your subscription. Two of the packets are 50 fine motor activity ideas for ages 0-3 and ages 3-6 and the other is a 32 page scissor practice packet in age appropriate sequence of skills.

I hope that many of these resources are helpful for you as you homeschool your child with special needs. I also have another resource for you on Pinterest.

You can check out my homeschooling special needs Pinterest board for more ideas.

Follow Heather G. | Golden Reflections Blog's board Homeschool – Special Needs on Pinterest.
 

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