create account in name of person taking the exam. how does one know when exam is available? That is determined by individual test centers and you'll have to check with a center near you. try this locator tool on College board site if you haven't seen that https://clep.collegeboard.org/test-center-search Open on that will mean all test takers (versus a restricted or "limited" site such as a military base). It does not mean "open for business" as related to covid stuff. I know with my middle she was ready to take a 10th clep exam in march of 2020, but the center had to close for in person stuff the day before. oh well. got refund for test center fee and found another way to earn 6 credits at tesu.

love it and the rest of your paths with different children. just adding commentary that is a rabbit trail. These days at TESU (Thomas Edison), policies have changed for that route that many homeschoolers have done. Most all of the DSSTs that used to be Upper Level are no longer upper level recommended by ACE Credit so TESU gives them lower level. All students (as of Jan 1, 2021) have to take 30 regionally accredited credits in the degree plan (6 required at tesu - sos110 and the capstone, but the other 24 can be transferred in). Still can be done. just not the same way. It's nice to hear someone else on here who did the TESU route with their students using alternative credit options and credit by exam. I feel less lonely now. that's why I added that info. love hearing the variety of ways CLEP works as part of homeschool stuff.

Because most courses were not new material, the MS time length was reduced for us most of the courses. I did not keep detailed records of how long per day. Our reason to use MS was the vouchers. The time they give includes person reading the e-textbook in the course. If all one does is watch the video and answer the simple questions about those it will not take that long. They assume a slow and steady pace to get ready. PS, I forgot this until this morning. The sociology course my dd took is not the current MS version. Back a few years ago when she did sociology, the modern states linked to the edX version of Arizona State University's "global" (now called Earned Admission**) soc class. It was still free to take it. But that's a big reason that first test took my dd so long. I had forgotten that. We went through MS and they were in the process of changing the course that semester. Also a popular form of test prep are the REA Clep guides. includes full length practice tests and some study material. They also pace for about 4 weeks of prep. **ASU renamed it again. universal learner.

Varies widely depending on factors. with her first clep exam (sociology), she spent 3 months getting ready. Sociology was a new subject for her. Then she was ready quickly (1 month ish) for US HIst 1 and then 2 was a few weeks later. Pre-Calc she was looking around 3 months review and prep and getting confidence. Most were 4-6 weeks in her case. By time she did Am. Govt, that was 3 weeks from start review and prep to take it. Scheduling was done online for the test center. They had time slots of once a month if I recall. So we have projected dates to work with. Finished the modernstates review work, got voucher within 5 business days and scheduled right away based on the test center. oh, she is slow to average in how fast she works in school. and she had no other classes at the time and no job (just some volunteer stuff a few hours a week) So it was her full time stuff. I don't recall how many hours a day. They got to know us in that test center. 9 exams in about 12 months time? Her final one was the first week of her first class at the college with the center. note on scheduling: this will vary from place to place. Some test centers will have more than one day a month. And with covid issues, who knows what will be available in your area. Even in our area, some centers had more openings than the community college. But we liked the location and parking and little things like that. I know some people who have jammed through clep exams much faster and have stories out there about doing 2 exams a day. That was not the reality or ability for my daughter. Other people will study for 2 at a time. again... my daughter is not wired like that. in pre-covid days, CLEP exams were available year round. AP only in May. so that plays into scheduling as well.

giggling.. we got ice cream on the way home after clep exams. And with the pre-calc one, I told her just before they handed her the score sheet, "remember, we get ice cream either way." Then I saw the pass score (50 and higher was all she needed, she got 57) and I literally happy danced in the waiting room. Middle gal still had deer in headlights look. The test center people were laughing at me all in good fun. anyway: Oldest and transcript. oh,. oops, I knew I never did something on that. oh well. I didn't actually put it on transcript at all. My cover school would have allowed "honors" but we still wouldn't have "clep" on the transcript just the same way we wouldn't have put "Saxon" on the transcript. CLEP exam was a means to determine stuff, not the name of course. At this time oldest took it, the state scholarship did not allow clep. That happened a year after she needed it. all good. modern states did not exist when she was in high school to the best of my knowledge. Yes, oldest daughter took ACT and went to traditional path of 4 year university. earned bachelors in electrical engineering, math, and computer science. For this forum her ACT score is "low", it was only a 30. still placed in Calculus 1 for engineers as a freshman. wink No, her college would not give credit for her English score either. But the non flagship state university 1 mile way would have given her credit for freshman comp 1 with a 29 on ACT English. Middle gal: math is not her strong thing like it is with her dad and older sister. We did the sequence with MFW curriculum. 9th grade Saxon Alg 1, Jacobs Geometry in 10th. Saxon Alg 2 in 11th (then took ACT at end of 11th grade. very average score. 24 composite and 24 in math if I recall correctly). 12th grade math was as much of Saxon Advanced book as she got done. uhm.. I called it Pre Calc on transcript, It was almost a year after high school graduation when she took exam after taking her time with modernstates and practice exams (I think she prepared for 3 months for that clep exam compared to 1 month for others and she worked on one CLEP exam at a time. it's just her. She liked modernstates stuff well enough. Yes it apparently was worth her time. She's average learner who works hard. She 's not math genius like her dad or older sister. It was work. She did problem sets and such. If her community college had accepted College Algebra or College Math CLEP for credit that is what she would have done. She practiced using the online calculator that College Board links to on their site for practice.

Middle gal is my CLEP taker. She wasn’t ready for college at end of high school and not sure what to do. That first year she took 9 CLEP exams and passed them all. Sociology, Humanities, English Lit, Biology, Pre-Calc, Psychology, US History to 1877, US History from 1877, and American Government. Prep work was combined with the stuff she used in our high school years (mfw), modern states (modernstates.org)brush up and prep courses (which in turn gave vouchers for the exam to be free and the test center fee reimbursed), some REA practice tests, and some practice tests from our library using Peterson brand practice test (through the Gale/Cengage references at public library). For English Lit and Humanities, she used the flashcards at InstantCert, Here’s a link to their website if you’re not familiar https://www.instantcert.com/articles/article-how-instantcert-can-help-you-pass-your-clep-exams She had solid high school homeschool materials. Test prep fill in the gaps study. Took practice exams. Then real exam. That gave her confidence to take 8 courses at community college to finish associate. And then she took some alternative credit provider courses to continue getting credits, and enrolled at Thomas Edison to finish out bachelors (currently in the final capstone course!) I never imagined we'd be one of "those" But yeah. Oldest: passed CLEP college algebra after finishing Saxon Alg 2 and some prep work with DIVE cd option and similar practice tests from library. That was mostly for me to feel validated that she knew something. She was sick and tired of reading literature by end of her high school homeschool years so she took CLEP analyzing and interpreting literature. Again, practice exams from resources at library and solid high school stuff. Her university accepted it for Gen Ed literature requirement. agreeing that it's helpful to know what the target college will accept. In my oldest dd case it meant one of the exams was just for our high school purposes (college algebra) and the other was college credit. Her university takes clep college algebra but in her field it was not going to mean anything in degree (engineering and math and comp sci). For my middle, knowing which CLEP exams did what meant degree planning for a very non traditional path to degree. There are a few places out there that require some essays with certain exams to grant credit. So find the fine print for the university. Also in my state, homeschoolers trying to be eligible for a specific state grant can use CLEP exams as one way to show "honors and college credit" for that scholarship.

Current as of dec. 2020 (link and course could change) Another online option is the free version of a course at U of Memphis. You don't have to be a degree seeking student for it. The title is a little silly with "adulting 101". Course is based on a family and consumer financial literacy course at the university. My youngest took it last semester for non credit. Thought it was good for reading articles and having discussion with us. Had to do the little quizzes to unlock the next lesson but didn't bother with the exam for credit. It was for life stuff. https://www.memphis.edu/uofmglobal/degrees/complimentary/adulting101.php

side issue/rabbit trail here.... "cooking and just called it chemistry" (let's make a cake with baking soda and vinegar and clap our hands to the homeschool deity) is different from "used cooking to learn scientific principles of chemistry". This was a fun but not easy chemistry lab with food developed by someone at Harvard https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-from-haute-cuisine-to-soft-matter, and of course there is a high school Gourmet Lab: scientific principles behind your favorite foods published by national science teacher's association. But the point remains that even in those food based inquiry approaches real labs with real skills were done and deserve proper write up so that it doesn't sound like bake a cake and call it chemistry in high school. Arizona State University has a template they want to see for lab discussions for homeschoolers : https://admission.asu.edu/sites/default/files/general/science_form_home_school_applications-fillable.pdf disclaimer: I wrote simple paragraphs for "course descriptions" and no one asked for them - not even with oldest who was STEM. But she wasn't trying to get into super elite places. I just wanted to share the link to ASU if it would help others to see a range of possibilities. I know with our labs we sometimes substituted household items (liquid measuring cups) for "graduated cylinders", but I would have called it a graduated cylinder during "science class." but then again, my scientist husband was ok with that. I'm not suggesting lowering standards.

The cover school we used suggested "If a student takes longer to complete the course, issue partial credit (.5) for the first half of the course. The remaining .5 credit is given when the course is completed." This was common approach with electives. They issued transcripts by date not by subject.

adding my 2 cents even if it's similar to what was already said. The cover school I used fell in line with what other members on forum have said. http://homelifeacademy.com/academics/high-school/high-school-credits/ so yeah, I did that carneige unit thing. and they had a standard for honors courses http://homelifeacademy.com/special-courses/ then, in my research I found that other places, such as NARHS which is regionally accredited, used a different standard where 80 hours was considered year credit and 40 was semester. blew my mind. didn't change what I did. But open my eyes that there are different ranges used by different sources. (eta: I don't agree with that standard. just saying how weird I thought it was that it was that big of a difference.)

Very generally speaking: I work toward progress and improvements. but I don't define the goals by grade levels. if any of this story time helps..... I have children who are not typical learners. I homeschooled all of them from kindy through high school graduation. Oldest is gifted but with ADHD (and dysgraphia) and is a college graduate with STEM degrees. Middle has language and auditory processing disorders and should finish online college this semester with a bachelors in general studies earned in very non traditional route. She would have never thrived in group school and always was behind socially and other ways. Youngest has autism with intellectual disabilities and is in community college working on technical diploma. I did not base my reason to homeschool or not to be about grade level standards. I based it on my willingness to do the work to the best of my ability and keep trying. That’s me. Oh, and no foster or adopt. So I don’t have that to share. Six hours of school a day is a lot for one on one instruction at your child’s age. My preference was to work on a subject for a fixed time and get done what got done. Next day, start there. I used materials that were friendly to having 15 minutes of lesson suggestions to move through the day. Less was more. I have heard over the years of homeschooling and sharing on forums that many average learners struggle with defining parts of speech without having a poster in front of them. But I also see what you are saying that there are memory struggles. My bestie recently became a foster dad for first time. He has always homeschooled his older son (adopted at birth), and looks forward to homeschooling foster child after legally being allowed to. He has a dreamy expectation that homeschooling will make this child typical. We’ll see. Oh my that sweet little boy is very behind. And with covid he’s been homeschooled by default. Two months into it my dear friend doubts every day that he is qualified to be foster parent. He is qualified. And I’m confident that you are too. But the pressures that my friend puts on himself worries me some times I know he’s venting to me and I’m not going to share.those details. But I will say, keep on keeping on. Talk to doctors. Get the help needed. And so far, each week the social worker sees improvement and tells him how good a job he is doing. He just feels some outside pressure even though he knows better. It's just he really wants to do a good job with parenting and raising kids. He's the full time non incoming producing parent and feels the pressure of full time housework and teaching. It is hard work and sometimes even his older kid can't remember a noun from verb. and they are classical education too. Yes, I think you should do what is needed to either get her state insurance to do a full educational eval, or find a way to self pay if that is legal for you. It may or may not be ADHD. If it is, ask about treatments. Don’t let society give your husband some stigma that ADHD is bad parenting and making them zombies. Ok? Your foster daughter has enough symptoms that you have shared that a full educational eval needs to be documented and diagnosed especially if you have any hopes that she will return to public school. Even if you magically get her to grade level, she will need supports to stay and improve. It may not be adhd. But it is something. Don’t self diagnose. That paper trail will help even if you don't return to public school. Ok. on your math struggles thread a few weeks back, the idea of developmental vision was discussed. I don’t know how you will go about that. My daughter’s occupational therapist suggested this website to us https://eyecanlearn.com/ and this one for general cognitive therapy https://equippingminds.com/equipping-minds-cognitive-development-program/what-we-do/ With my youngest she never made it to “grade level” by standardized testing. We worked one on one and had private therapists, and music lessons, and everything “right”. I did not consider it my responsibility to get her to grade level. I considered it my responsibility to make progress and keep teaching. I adjusted lessons. I adjusted teaching techniques. Hey, I’m envious of you. You got your child to conversational ability. Never happened here. But you know what? My kiddo is 18 and next month will be part of a virtual panel discussion as a health messenger advocate for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She will read her answers to the questions that were already given. I guess we’re getting public speaking credit now. oh, and one of the other panelists is high school age and he is homeschooled with autism and intellectual disability. a third panelists is high school age but public school with IEP. and other one is age 23. anyway.. don't base your decision about homeschooling on grade level issues. keep your expectations realistic and it is not realistic to make up several years of progress inside of calendar year. There are students in community college who went through public school and yet still need developmental courses.

I'm sure someone will have the magic trick out there. Here's my failures to share if some of that would help with those "eek I can't send them out" thoughts. My oldest is 25 y.o and a terrible speller. She has issues along with being gifted in intelligence. I considered myself homeschool failure about spelling. In college, she used Word and learned to use spell check for things pointed out. And learned to have someone look over for wrong word but spelled correctly. I often thought Logic of English would have helped her but she refused to try. It seems set up for adhd, engineering and asperger/high functioning autism. right? The programs that were not a good fit included Spelling Power, Apples, and IEW's phonetic zoo. She tried too hard and it was all jumbled. Anyway, she graduated summa cum laude in 3 STEM degrees where no one else could spell either. and bought a house a few months ago and has a steady job in her field. I get it that you have feelings with the not going out into the world. I felt like that. But hey. my oldest has done ok. Oh, you want the worst case? Imagine this. true story. She's all excited on college graduation day. Just won some award, and has the summa cum laude and everything possible. They had called her name and the awards just kept coming from the podium. anyway. She gets done with ceremony and posts on her social media with the excitement and joy of the day. It was done very quickly from phone with major typos including misspelling engineering. Thankfully, one of her nice friends helped her retype it within the same minute before too many people made fun of her. She had others proofread her resume and cover letters. She uses spell check. has multiple stem degrees, a full time job in the field, and bought a house last year. So if you never get this part figured out, it's ok. homeschooling still works. Middle gal also in college. better speller than oldest but still.. this is my failure in language arts teaching. Well, at least with this one she has more diagnosed disabilities. Again, word processing helps correct it. She just can't apply the right rule all the time. It's too much on her brain. both of them would have spelled curtin the way your kid did. it sounds right. Sometimes, some right brain tricks and word play would help middle gal. Then youngest has the most disabilities of all with autism and severe language delays. She's my top speller. It just looks right or wrong to her. go figure. hope you find a good solution. I just had to share my failure story with poor speller who did well in college and has a life.

If you're concerned on calling something chemistry, then Conceptual Chemistry with Lab works. I used that title for a course youngest did using the text Friendly Chemistry mixed with labs from Gourmet Lab: The Scientific Principles Behind Your Favorite Foods. I used to have this feeling it was wrong to call it high school level on stuff until I realized how flexible high school courses really are for general classes. "Conceptual" chemistry or physics tends to be less math needed approach. It is legit to do that for high school credit. and my youngest surprised us a few weeks ago in that she (who has limited speech ability due to autism) starting saying something about "I remember that in chemistry class" as she was hearing something and called out some chemistry facts about it. can't remember exactly what is was but it was about reactions and bonding. My husband (who holds a phd in chemistry) said "well, that's right." looks at me and says "well, she is a high school graduate so she knows some chemistry." I really am off track. But all of that to say "Conceptual Chemistry" may be the title you prefer to use on your transcript and that's not wrong for high school. and with covid.. agreeing. I don't think I mentioned this part already. if I did, oops. but with my youngest and community college? because of covid restrictions, we couldn't do ACT or Accuplacer. Guess what? they used her high school gpa and transcript for placement. She had one class that needed "college level reading" as pre-req or had to take the developmental course. I was all prepared for it just being take the developmental course because her grades in English 9, 10, 11, 12 were "C"s and I knew it was modified and accommodated due to disability. overall gpa was higher. But instead, they decided that it was good enough to be placed in the course without a co-requisite developmental course. and it turns out the course was online with a textbook that had speech to text options and videos, so she didn't need "college level reading for literature" in the first place. And she did just fine. It was a computer applications course in her technical diploma. I'm not saying to slack off in high school. I"m saying that when she was in grade 10, I never thought any of this would happen. I thought at best she'd do a Penn Foster career diploma as administrative assistant and that would be a stretch for her. what does that have to do with science sequence for you? nothing. just saying how weird covid has made everything right now for college and community college. and if the student of someone random were college prep for 4 year STEM degrees, then ignore the stories about my youngest. It doesn't apply to you.

wanted to share my opinion and story. I noticed you were leaning toward community college right after high school. My youngest is in community college now and it was right after high school. no DE during high school. She had an unusual science sequence on her transcript (think, coasting or remedial if you will). Community college here has open admissions so it didn't matter. If it helps you any? her chemistry labs were primarily kitchen based with foods. Turns out for her college non major science she will transfer in a non major biology course that she took from arizona state university earned admissions (she was in beta test group with a course they will most likely call Living World on the earned admissions and already passed it and has it on asu transcript). Oh the irony! ASU is the all uptight university that wants to see that homeschoolers did real labs. ba ha ha ha hah... yet they offer virtual option for this course that they give 4 college credits (regionally accredited college credits at that). ba ha ha ha.. sorry, I just found that funny in light of all the years on this forum that members share how to deal with the oddball case of proving you did real science labs because of ASU's policy. Yet they changed policy and have all these online courses. soon when that course is open to general public.... giggle. anyway, my youngest. I decided to have a "integrated physical science" high school credit which was intro to chem and physics in a way similar to what you described. Then biology. and 3rd science was conceptual chemistry (used Friendly Chemistry and kitchen labs) as a full year credit. I know that the community college really didn't care that she did it in the order she did, or that Bio and conceptual chemistry were both listed in the 10th grade year and no science in 11th or 12th. if the situation were about a student going to highly selective university, it might matter. glean what you can from our community college case and non competitive approach in course sequence.

agreeing with starting points already mentioned (know your state's laws for homeschooling and issuing diploma, count what has been done, look at what is left that is essential to complete). adding: I think for spring 2020, getting through March call it done and give the credit. I base that on how the public schools here ended up doing it. This year you can give credit in some fashion for all the horse and barn work. You know your child of course. Online courses does not always mean "virtual learning done in pandemic". We would have withered with "virtual learning" the way it's done locally. (login, sit there, listen, do worksheets. blah. miserable and not working well for most people) But having online materials to do at our own pace (with me as grading teacher) worked well. If your state does not really regulate what homeschoolers must do to issue a diploma and you're not sure what to do to finish, then look at what it would take for admissions into the 2 yr program she is interested in. Or , take a look at the minimum diploma requirements from an online accredited high school called NARHS. link to their handbook to see how they determine graduation requirements: https://www.narhs.com/sites/default/files/NARHS Handbook_0.pdf I am not saying you need to sign up with them. You can if you want. I'd suggesting looking at their requirements so you have a template of sorts to build your requirements for the diploma. That way you have some guidelines of what can be done. In their handbook they talk about ways to do self designed classes, and ways to do textbook etc. In my opinion, it will give you ideas to find ethical and legit ways to design graduation requirements in homeschool. Many ways it can be done for different goals.

Thanks for this. We watched Berry eagles several years in a row and sometimes wondered if others on here were watching too. Loved it when they made it the whole way to first flight. Felt sad when some didn't make it. eggs crushed, non viable, or the walk off the edge of the nest that one year (that was heartbreaking to see nature like that). didn't watch last year. Ending up getting our nature streams on cat rescue sites. and it says on the info that it's a new Berry Female. oh wow. exciting. the female we watched all those years had about 10 make it to fledgling. awwww thanks for sharing. might be a fun hobby to pick back up. oh, and Gena F is still sharing her photography on the FB page. yes! She is awesome quality with photos of Berry eagles.

This is important to say since you're early in your homeschool journey. There is no "right" or "wrong" way to approach this topic/subject or any other topic/subject. You'll mess up on something just like all of us have had trial and error along the way even when following a structured program. I'm in the camp that says religious study is part of cultural literacy and is necessary. It's just too tied into studying history and people. Many ways. here's what I tried to do. Many people will follow a general idea of younger years to teach it concretely as part of your life, then add some info as you see need (oh, your friend from school can't meet up today, the family is celebrating such and such). Holidays are a natural time to explore the topics. Some people may take a simple approach to grab some library books from children's section about any holiday (religious or national). In my homeschooling style, we had books to read from to glean info. Got lessons done and read on things of interest. Then in high school, a different approach was taken with other faiths and religious beliefs as an academic course. Then, in college years, the university had a religious course requirement as part of General Education diversity. Oh my oldest. LOL. She was an engineering major who took World Religions for that requirement. And when the scheduled field trip to the local reform Jewish synagogue was canceled for reasons, she asked professor if she could text her Orthodox friend and see if his rabbi could let them tour the Orthodox one instead. We are Christian faith so it wasn't just going to our own place on field trip. She had friends who were not the same as she. Or, back in the days pre Covid, when the Islamic Center in town had open house days to tour and learn, we did that. Lots of fun. One of the moms in our homeschool PE class invited us. Had food table. took our shoes off to go in the prayer hall. It was great to learn basics from those who are in that faith. and long ago... in another city in a previous life, we visited the Tibetan Buddhist monastery in town. It was run by the brother or nephew of the Dalai Lama. kinda of a tourist thing. but I digress. The point of that part of my rambling was to consider field trips when those are able to be done again when pandemic issues are not a factor. And when friends say hey, want to come to my religious thing, you might consider saying "sounds neat". I know I wouldn't have gone to the Islamic open house if she hadn't just asked and invited me. foods. holidays and field trips. If a company called Sophia LLC is still area when yours are in older high school age, there's a nice little course they have called approaches to studying religion. But it's not stage of learning appropriate for now. I say that mostly to let you know stuff is there now and new things will be there when you are ready. I started homeschooling long ago and technically finished K through 12 journey a few months ago when youngest finished high school. I had no idea what I would use for high school for her until I got there. Long story short, but what was good fit for other two was not good fit for youngest. Again, that's to encourage you for long trip with homeschooling. Not really about saying to use that course. Just saying stuff will be there. and Bible as literature can wait until another stage of learning if you want to do that. agreeing that if you're using Story of the World, you'll have a good start to learning some study of religious views in a built in to the program kind of way. I should have started my rambling with that. thanks for listening to old person ramble this morning.

whew. I was thinking the Dalek and cars being exterminated were involved. first you get the light, then crack in the walll... just don't blink, ok? and yes, glad the neighbor is fine. I'd be out of my mind at that point.

If it was fluorescent bulb, don't worry. That's normal when it's at the end of life. but yeah, given the monolith and exploding cars. wait, it was fluorescent bulb, right?

The Christian one with a pediatrician as one author (Brooke Ryan, MD) may have been apologia anatomy and physiology in the young explorer series? supposed to be in that recommended age/grade level too. It's not a set of books though. It's text with student journals and that kind of set of stuff.

Welcome to homeschooling. For how much you'll adjust will be a personal thing. Here is a link to the samples for RS4K. https://gravitaspublications.com/getting-started/samples/ Hoping that is a little bit helpful to you to get an idea of the books. I haven't used bookshark personally. Just listened to my friend who does. He was biology major long ago. I don't know how much he adds/changes etc to stuff, but even if I did, that kind of stuff is individualized. No suggestions for what to supplement. But echoing that some of it will be presented in future years in other texts. Enjoy those nature walks and hiking. One of the fun thing in homeschooling is being able to do that.

Love that update!!!!!!! congratulations!

and here's the grading scale conversion for the cover school that dmmetler and teachermom and I use. http://homelifeacademy.com/hla-recordkeeping/grading-scale/ "... because they can read the transcripts". yes, that is funny. and Alabama has cover schools too. Maybe it's all about the legal side of private school vs "independent"? maybe those other schools don't have easy to read columns on transcripts? I don't know. just rambling and showing there is no consistent standard out there with numbers and letters.

For my brother in law, having a GED did not stop him from university and eventually Law school. He has been an attorney for a long time. He had dropped out of public school at age 17 due to not getting along with mom and her new husband. It's a fun ice breaker for him these days. I have other friends who never went to college and having a GED was important to get better pay. If your son can pass GED or HiSET (some states do HiSET instead of GED just like some colleges take ACT and/or SAT), then do that. If he cannot pass, I'd like to suggest you look at other places plans for a general/vocational diploma. For example, a school called NARHS has a list of courses in its handbook that might give you a path of idea to give credit and finish up. Here is that link https://www.narhs.com/sites/default/files/NARHS Handbook_0.pdf I am not saying to enroll with them (you can if you want) but to use the structure in that handbook to revise your homeschool graduation requirements with confidence that you are not just making up a diploma. You might be very surprised that to get an accredited diploma requires less than rigor approach. And with various learning disabilities you might consider high school materials that fit that bill. take a look on https://www.wiesereducational.com/products/b_english-language-arts/ for other kinds of materials such as the Walch Power Basic series and ask him to get it done without you. Maybe you know someone in real life who can visit (with mask and social distance of course) so he has someone other than you to turn in the material. Another friend struggled with this issue in recent years with her son. He has disabilities, depression, addictions, etc. Stopped working for her in homeschool (but he would turn in stuff to grandpa). Eventually, she graduated him from homeschool with a very general vocational diploma and sent him to Job Corps. That was a mixed result for him and they are still working on mental health and keeping a job. Rent etc is paid in chores. hope you can glean from various short stories of people I know. edit to add: agreeing with the idea of using the free courses on modern states clep prep as high school basic credit. I think that even if you don't take the clep exam. If one just did the videos and basic questions on there it would not be an indepth course, but that's ok with a general/vocational diploma path. high school credit is not always 150 hours for carneige unit, or complete a textbook. There are other ways to design a goals based course. may not be popular to admit that, but in some cases it can be a non traditional approach.

Here is a link that you might enjoy from a university with the degree. Has some extra info from what was already shared. https://www.southeastern.edu/acad_research/programs/cse/career_expl/slu_degree/degrees/family_and_consumer_.html