X-post: dyslexics and high school courses

[rbk mama]

I just posted asking about physics for my dyslexic high schooler.  Looking back at old posts, I see that I asked about video lectures for computer science a while back (Edhesive has been great so far).  I know that my dyslexic student needs video lectures, preferably ones with some animation and other graphics - not just a person talking (he has some attention/focus trouble also).  Does anyone know of a list of high school classes or resources that are good for dyslexic students?  I keep thinking there must be tons of homeschoolers looking for things like this for their dyslexic high schoolers who cannot learn well from traditional textbooks.

 

Can we start a list (or a list of lists if anyone has links)?

 

For Bio this year we are using the Miller Levine (Macaw) ibook and it is AMAZINGLY PERFECT for this DS.  Each chapter section is just about exactly the right amount of reading and is liberally interspersed with beautiful graphics, animations, videos, photos, etc.  It took me a bit to realize that turning the ipad horizontally made a huge difference!  LOL.  We're also using the accompanying workbook (selected portions) and lab book, and I have the teachers' editions to both of those.  The entire collection was quite cheap.  I bought lab materials from Home Science Tools and just flipped through the lab manual to see what was needed (we're not doing ALL the labs...).  He's watching Crash Course bio videos as an introduction to the material before reading each topic, which is helpful for him (and he really likes them).  He has also enjoyed the Untamed Science videos, especially for the ecology topics.

 

He's using David Chandler's Math Without Borders videos for Algebra 2 and Trig right now, and he used them for Algebra 1 as well (both courses use Foerster)- he really likes them.  Duke TIP for geometry was less pleasant - the videos were long, dull, and impossible to rewind or fast forward.

 

I think we'll go with Derek Owens for algebra-based physics.

 

No idea yet what to do for Chemistry. 

 

I'm also shopping around for micro and macro economics options.

 

I would love to hear what has worked for other dyslexic high schoolers!

[Aras]

Thank you so much for sharing what works for your dc!

[Guest2]

Pennsylvania homeschoolers had a Macro AP course that might be a good fit. It is a combination of Teaching Company lectures and games on the computer that illustrate the economic concepts.http://www.aphomeschoolers.com/cgi-bin/choose.pl?class=economics

The games can be engaging and thus time consuming, but it was one of my son's favorite classes. There were no actual classes, but lots of login time to play the games, and answer questions posted .There were some AP essay prompts throughout the year to help prepare for the test. Depending on future plans or ease of finding a place to test AP, you could either skip it or CLEP instead.

 

Edited to add : This son of mine is not dyslexic.

Edited February 14, 2017 by Silver Brook

[foxbridgeacademy]

Study.com, HSBC runs a special on it 

[Lanny]

A few positive words of encouragement:  On a temporary contract assignment in the PNW, I worked with a young Engineer who had Dyslexia.  He had some difficulties along the way, I'm sure, but he had a B.S.E.E. degree and was working on Avionics for a Civil Turbojet aircraft.   Also, I knew a man who was an "Editor" (everyone who writes for a magazine is an Editor?)  and quite successful writing for 2 or 3 major computer magazines. GL to your student!