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  1. We are defenitely Charlotte Mason style! I just am never sure how to do it with High School Science. Thank you so much for the link! She is in 10th grade and also is doing a few classes at the local Tech college. She has an idea of what she wants to do, but being 14, that of course can and most likely will change. :) We will defenitely be checking into a few colleges in the area that she is interested in! Thank you so much for your replies! These were much needed ideas/thoughts for me to look into!
  2. Hello all! Question for you. I am thinking on our plan for our 14 yr old. She is wanting to go into the Science realm, but more Biology related. So, my question is, does she NEED Physics? We are planning on her doing Chemistry of course, but she is not doing well with Algebra 1. Right now she is getting about a B- average. So we will be redoing some of it so that she gets a proper understanding. Also, if she needs Physics, what kind of program would be best? We are very literature based. Thank you SO much in advance! Becky
  3. I LOVE them!!! The pictures are beautiful, the kiddos are loving the variety, I have all of them now...bought the ones I was missing with tax money...I love them that much!
  4. Thank you for the link! DH and I actually were thinking about his future a few months before he was diagnosed. We had just simply come to the conclusion that even if the dr's weren't going to diagnose him, that there was something wrong and he wasn't going to be able to do the things we thought he was. DH has been thinking about looking into group homes for when he is older. That way he will *feel* like he is out on his own, but still with some one to guide him and be there. I (and maybe it's my motherly side) am not to sure about that. There is nothing wrong with it, just I guess I feel like he needs to be with us. Also, that is a great idea about the medicaid. I appreciate all of your advice!!
  5. Thank you so much for replying! DH and I just got a Dr's appt scheduled so that we could start getting all the proper paperwork in line for DS. I thank you for reminding me that I also need to be in contact with HSLDA to make sure that we get everything that we need! I guess DH and I always saw the academic as the main homeschooling. Living skills were just something that was natural, but we never focused on it as actual curriculum. Whereas with DS we know that we have gone about it all wrong and should have made our focus on living skills and not academics. The hard thing for us was that every Dr kept saying there was nothing wrong and we were crazy so when we would try to keep him on task with where he would be normally (always increasing in knowledge and abilities academically). And of course it would leave me frazzled at the end of every school year because he hadn't retained it or we needed to back him up. But at the same time he needed to be able to pass the standardized testing that is required in GA. Our DS also is REALLY low in vocabulary. Our 6 yr old speaks better and has better word usage than DS with asperger's. It makes it very difficult for him with writing, because he writes like he talks. We have tried getting him into speech with the school district (ins won't cover speech if school age because the school does it for free), but they only want to work on pronunciation and he doesn't need that. They also wanted to work on his handwriting...not his word placement, but his actual handwriting. It's not the best, but totally readable. We were pretty unhappy with that. So we pulled him. I will be calling HSLDA today and see what they recommend as far as documentation for our state. Thanks again!
  6. I am so glad to have found this forum! Our 14yr just got diagnosed with Asperger's. We have been homeschooling since he was in 3rd grade, but I constantly run into troubles. DH and I seriously considered putting him in ps, but his dev. psychologists told us no way! She said we would do more harm than good to him. So this has begun our dilemma. We have tried BJU, Sonlight, Rod and Staff, SOS, and lots of others inbetween. He is at the lower level of the IQ spectrum and we still have to do more testing and all that good stuff. He also has ADD. Our main problem is that he will start something and seem to get it with no problem, but then a couple days later...he has completely forgotten it!! I have had to back him up every couple of years and start all from the beginning to get him back where he needs to be, just for him to forget again. He is at that point again now. Are we losing our minds? He is so forgetful and he can only do 2 tasks at a time. I do try to keep him on a schedule as much as possible as it helps him a ton. DH and I have come to the conclusion that we need to just only focus on living skills and maybe get him a 4th grade math book and have him do that every year (since he forgets anyways) to keep him fresh in his basic math and maybe read a book for a few minutes everyday. Also, we want to work with him more with his speech and social skills. Does this sound like we are going to be hurting more than helping him? We are so at a loss with all of this, as for all these years we have gone from Dr to Dr and they just look and say well yes he has speech problems, well yes he is very low IQ, well yes he is a little odd..but there is really nothing wrong with your child. Now that we have a Dr that is actually helping and listening..we are like where do we go from here! I am sorry if this is so jumbled. I am so excited to hear your opinions!!
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