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!!