Do you use general ed curriculum or SAI?

[LisaAnne]

I am currently looking into bringing my DS home for schooling. He is enrolled in public school in a SAI classroom.

 

I am confused on the curriculum I would need to use. Do you use general curriculum at a slower pace? This is what I was thinking of doing.

 

DS suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury prior to placement in our home (Shakin Baby) resulting in a low average IQ (high 60-low 80's with the highest in Receptive). He has poor working memory and ADHD (treating). He also has a major speech delay and is considered communicability disabled (according to tests)

[Tokyomarie]

Most of us have children who function in the more mild/moderate levels of disability and some of us have children who are twice exceptional- gifted with learning disabilities. There are a few moms, however, who have more moderately to severely impaired children. Those moms likely use general ed. curriculum at a slower pace in the earlier years and implement curriculum for special populations as their children get older and the knowledge gaps grow wider.

 

Do you have copies of any recent psycho-educational, neuropsychological, speech, OT, etc.testing? The information contained within can be very helpful in coming up with ideas on the style of curriculum that will work best. Will you be able to pay for private speech services if you homeschool? Since his speech delays are specifically related to an injury, it's possible that he qualifies for insurance coverage for speech/language. There are lots of good language therapy materials that are available through Linguisystems and SuperDuper, Inc. There are other sites that have special needs materials as well.

 

Your son is young enough yet that I would put a lot of focus on developing memory, basic cognitive function skills, and language first. Work some on academic skills and immerse him in the world around him for building general knowledge, but the more you build language & cognitive functions, the more his brain will be able to respond to the academics.

[chiguirre]

I am currently looking into bringing my DS home for schooling. He is enrolled in public school in a SAI classroom.

 

I am confused on the curriculum I would need to use. Do you use general curriculum at a slower pace? This is what I was thinking of doing.

 

DS suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury prior to placement in our home (Shakin Baby) resulting in a low average IQ (high 60-low 80's with the highest in Receptive). He has poor working memory and ADHD (treating). He also has a major speech delay and is considered communicability disabled (according to tests)

 

Sometimes I use general curriculum at a slower pace and sometimes I use sped curriculum. For example, I use both MUS (general ed) and Semple Math (sped) materials. Ds can read at about a 4th/5th grade level (finally) so he reads grade level materials. His handwriting is severely delayed and he has no spelling sense at all. We're currently using Apples and Pears (a dyslexia/dysgraphia remediation program) and it seems to be clicking with him. He's always used general science and history resources along with his sister and these work well because he's good a very good auditory memory. You'll just have to experiment (possibly a lot) to find what you need. It might also be a case of having to wait until your ds is ready to master a particular skill. Keep plugging away and you will see progress, it might be glacial but it does accumulate.

[LisaAnne]

Thank you both. I will look into the curriculum you have listed.