Guest Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 (edited) nm...... Edited May 21, 2017 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 Summer, you could post again in the main board (Learning Challenges). More people might notice your post there. Most just post there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samba Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 I am homeschooling my ds15, who has Down syndrome. He's technically in 9th grade. He is a decent reader, a weak but ok writer/speller and terribly deficient in math. We spend most of our time on these basics and try to fold history and science into whatever we're doing for reading and writing. For math, Semple. It's been remarkable for ds. In the past, we've tried MUS, Horizons and others. Ds would always make a little progress and then get stuck. There was no moving forward. Semple has allowed him to progress (slowly and still way behind but continual growth and retention!). I am sorry that I resisted trying Semple for so long. It just looked weird and I couldn't wrap my head around how it was supposed to work. When I ran out of all other options, I finally gave it a try. Oh my! It just clicked with Ds! For reading instruction, Rewards Intermediate. Nothing flashy but it's working. My ds reached a standstill in his reading when there were more mature/challenging multisyllabic words in his books. That's exactly what Rewards addresses by teaching prefixes, suffixes and how to break words down. I don't have time to post more now but I will come back and share some of the other things we're using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopmom Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 (edited) You might also join the social group for discussing older kids with learning challenges. It's more private & some of us with older kids prefer to post over there instead. Weiser Educational is my favorite place for viewing special Ed materials for big kids. You can see samples on their site. They carry the Pacemaker & AGS texts (simple high school textbooks, written at a lower level), plus others, including life skills curriculums. (* don't order from Weiser though, you can get those used online very cheap since public schools use them) Steck Vaughn is another publisher of "hi LO" materials, Weiser carries them also. I really like their Wonders of Science workbooks. Remedia Publications website carries a selection of remedial & life skills workbook series such as "menu Math", "grocery store math", etc Sound Foundations out of the U.K. sells the Apples & Pears and Dancing Bears remedial spelling and reading programs. I've used all of those, both when teaching public school special Ed & with my own child. Edited March 7, 2017 by Hilltopmom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 I don't have personal experience, but I used to sell books, and got good feedback about the Walch alternative ed titles: http://walch.com/alternative-and-special-education-text-books/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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