Re: Homeschool Math Program for ASD child?

[Guest guest]

Have you tried time4learning.com? It's really fun. If your son like to use the

computer give it a try.

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> My son had been doing great in math. He is 9 and was adding, regrouping, and

subtracting up to 3 digit numbers all last year. Then we did a long unit on

time and money. 2 weeks ago, we went back to adding as review and it seems he

doesn't remember a thing. This kid never forgets anything, but suddenly he

can't or won't add. Today all of his answers were the letter " H " . We are back

to 1st grade stuff now--1+1 and it seems he cannot even do that. I guess I'm

going to have to start from scratch. We have been using simple Harcourt Family

Learning Math Skills workbooks. I enlarge everything and if the pages are too

cluttered, I hand-write problems so he can write large. I draw boxes for his

answers so he knows where to write. I make review worksheets when he needs

extra practice (that's why we spent so long on time and money.) Reading has

always been his weak point and math was always a breeze. I don't know where his

math has gone. I just keep trying and hope it will come back. Anyone

homeschooling? What programs have worked for your child?

>

[Guest guest]

IXL.com is another great site to practice math. Hope your son likes it.

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> > My son had been doing great in math. He is 9 and was adding, regrouping,

and subtracting up to 3 digit numbers all last year. Then we did a long unit on

time and money. 2 weeks ago, we went back to adding as review and it seems he

doesn't remember a thing. This kid never forgets anything, but suddenly he

can't or won't add. Today all of his answers were the letter " H " . We are back

to 1st grade stuff now--1+1 and it seems he cannot even do that. I guess I'm

going to have to start from scratch. We have been using simple Harcourt Family

Learning Math Skills workbooks. I enlarge everything and if the pages are too

cluttered, I hand-write problems so he can write large. I draw boxes for his

answers so he knows where to write. I make review worksheets when he needs

extra practice (that's why we spent so long on time and money.) Reading has

always been his weak point and math was always a breeze. I don't know where his

math has gone. I just keep trying and hope it will come back. Anyone

homeschooling? What programs have worked for your child?

> >

>

[Guest guest]

We are home schooling. We had him in private ESY for a few summers, and

they would use Touch Math for math and Reading Milestones for reading.

These both have some research to back up their use with special needs

children.

You would think schools would get on board, but .... you know how that goes.

We bought the level of Reading Milestones we felt our son was at. We bought

the touch math units that we felt our son would have difficulty with.

My son has made more progress in the last semester in academics than he has

ever made before.

Reading Milestones is very visual and it helps my son make visual

connections between the written words and their meanings.

Touch Math gives him something visual and tactile to do, and so it works for

him.

We also use Hartcourt Family Learning Complete Curriculum for things (they

make one for each grade level), and we use TAKS practice books for really

challenging him, and our program is working! We are using a modified RPM

methodology. I say modified only because our son is at a point where we

don't have to tear scraps of paper. He is now very verbal. We use the

letter and number boards if he loses focus. He also get s RPM tutoring each

week, and we are blessed to have an absolutely wonderful tutor!

Everything just fell into place to allow me to amass a team for our home

program. Our son is on MDCP. His PT and speech therapists come to the

house twice a week, and we go into town for OT twice a week. His tutor and

I handle the academics, and I handle things like yoga, basic music theory on

piano, art, and Carol Gray's social stories, spelling, and citizenship.

Then we go to social skills class once a week.

This is turning out to be the best year ever.

We also pick some things from edhelper.com. They have these activities for

teaching reading comprehension called " Ponder the Picture. " It is a

coloring book picture and then asks who, what, why, when --factual type

questions about the picture. Then he gets to color it.

I find ideas everywhere. My Goddaughter had a coloring book of animals so I

copied several pages of that, and I have him do " research " on the Internet.

He has to find five facts about the animal. I just cannot believe the

change in him and the amount of progress he is making now.

Look into Reading Milestones and touch Math. It has really helped my son

take off academically.

My son has always liked to " label " everything, and Dr. Grandin told me (yes,

I wrote her an e-mail when I was so desperate about teaching my son to

comprehend, and out of the blue she called me! She talked to me at length

about how to teach comprehension!) I am so thankful to her. She felt

labeling things is a good idea, so I bought my son a label maker, and I let

him label anything that is not " new " furniture. So he is helping me get

things organized by labeling everything that can be labeled, and in doing

this it is helping him make connections between the " thing " and the word,

which fosters comprehension.

Hope this helps. We are using goal-tracker.com to track his progress. It

is designed it is an on-line tracking program designed to use with special

needs kids, and it will track data, so you can then print graphs and see

where there is progress and what you need to work on or change.

[Guest guest]

We like ABEKA math, there are fun games to play.

Liz

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> My son had been doing great in math. He is 9 and was adding, regrouping, and

subtracting up to 3 digit numbers all last year. Then we did a long unit on

time and money. 2 weeks ago, we went back to adding as review and it seems he

doesn't remember a thing. This kid never forgets anything, but suddenly he

can't or won't add. Today all of his answers were the letter " H " . We are back

to 1st grade stuff now--1+1 and it seems he cannot even do that. I guess I'm

going to have to start from scratch. We have been using simple Harcourt Family

Learning Math Skills workbooks. I enlarge everything and if the pages are too

cluttered, I hand-write problems so he can write large. I draw boxes for his

answers so he knows where to write. I make review worksheets when he needs

extra practice (that's why we spent so long on time and money.) Reading has

always been his weak point and math was always a breeze. I don't know where his

math has gone. I just keep trying and hope it will come back. Anyone

homeschooling? What programs have worked for your child?

>

[Guest guest]

there's a guy who runs a math and physics free tutoring website--i think his

name is Khan. He was in the news cos he's sponsored by Bill Gates's foundation.

I spent some time on that site scoping it out for my kid, and it is amazing.

Video math tutorials, stuff on banking (he was a former banker, turned good guy

who now does this as a not for profit, by donation only).

I just looked it up. It's khan academy. there was a tv clip about him--prob on

youtube--where it shows him doing it out of his bedroom closet while his

toddler plays far enough away!

best wishes,

Fiona

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> > > My son had been doing great in math. He is 9 and was adding, regrouping,

and subtracting up to 3 digit numbers all last year. Then we did a long unit on

time and money. 2 weeks ago, we went back to adding as review and it seems he

doesn't remember a thing. This kid never forgets anything, but suddenly he

can't or won't add. Today all of his answers were the letter " H " . We are back

to 1st grade stuff now--1+1 and it seems he cannot even do that. I guess I'm

going to have to start from scratch. We have been using simple Harcourt Family

Learning Math Skills workbooks. I enlarge everything and if the pages are too

cluttered, I hand-write problems so he can write large. I draw boxes for his

answers so he knows where to write. I make review worksheets when he needs

extra practice (that's why we spent so long on time and money.) Reading has

always been his weak point and math was always a breeze. I don't know where his

math has gone. I just keep trying and hope it will come back. Anyone

homeschooling? What programs have worked for your child?

> > >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

What is MDCP?? Reading Milestones looks very promising. I wasn't even looking

for a reading program. Have been using Explode the Code, but this looks like

something that we could use in addition to our current curriculum. Touch Math

looks great but way out of my league financially. Harcourt Family Learning is

what we had been using until a couple of weeks ago when everything went blank

and he seems to have forgotten all the math he has ever learned. I love the

label maker idea. That is amazing that you got to talk to Dr. Grandin!!!

>

> We are home schooling. We had him in private ESY for a few summers, and

> they would use Touch Math for math and Reading Milestones for reading.

> These both have some research to back up their use with special needs

> children.

>

> You would think schools would get on board, but .... you know how that goes.

>

> We bought the level of Reading Milestones we felt our son was at. We bought

> the touch math units that we felt our son would have difficulty with.

> My son has made more progress in the last semester in academics than he has

> ever made before.

>

> Reading Milestones is very visual and it helps my son make visual

> connections between the written words and their meanings.

>

> Touch Math gives him something visual and tactile to do, and so it works for

> him.

>

> We also use Hartcourt Family Learning Complete Curriculum for things (they

> make one for each grade level), and we use TAKS practice books for really

> challenging him, and our program is working! We are using a modified RPM

> methodology. I say modified only because our son is at a point where we

> don't have to tear scraps of paper. He is now very verbal. We use the

> letter and number boards if he loses focus. He also get s RPM tutoring each

> week, and we are blessed to have an absolutely wonderful tutor!

>

> Everything just fell into place to allow me to amass a team for our home

> program. Our son is on MDCP. His PT and speech therapists come to the

> house twice a week, and we go into town for OT twice a week. His tutor and

> I handle the academics, and I handle things like yoga, basic music theory on

> piano, art, and Carol Gray's social stories, spelling, and citizenship.

> Then we go to social skills class once a week.

>

> This is turning out to be the best year ever.

>

> We also pick some things from edhelper.com. They have these activities for

> teaching reading comprehension called " Ponder the Picture. " It is a

> coloring book picture and then asks who, what, why, when --factual type

> questions about the picture. Then he gets to color it.

>

> I find ideas everywhere. My Goddaughter had a coloring book of animals so I

> copied several pages of that, and I have him do " research " on the Internet.

> He has to find five facts about the animal. I just cannot believe the

> change in him and the amount of progress he is making now.

>

> Look into Reading Milestones and touch Math. It has really helped my son

> take off academically.

>

> My son has always liked to " label " everything, and Dr. Grandin told me (yes,

> I wrote her an e-mail when I was so desperate about teaching my son to

> comprehend, and out of the blue she called me! She talked to me at length

> about how to teach comprehension!) I am so thankful to her. She felt

> labeling things is a good idea, so I bought my son a label maker, and I let

> him label anything that is not " new " furniture. So he is helping me get

> things organized by labeling everything that can be labeled, and in doing

> this it is helping him make connections between the " thing " and the word,

> which fosters comprehension.

>

> Hope this helps. We are using goal-tracker.com to track his progress. It

> is designed it is an on-line tracking program designed to use with special

> needs kids, and it will track data, so you can then print graphs and see

> where there is progress and what you need to work on or change.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

This is a great website!!! Thank you so much for recommending it!!!

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> > > My son had been doing great in math. He is 9 and was adding, regrouping,

and subtracting up to 3 digit numbers all last year. Then we did a long unit on

time and money. 2 weeks ago, we went back to adding as review and it seems he

doesn't remember a thing. This kid never forgets anything, but suddenly he

can't or won't add. Today all of his answers were the letter " H " . We are back

to 1st grade stuff now--1+1 and it seems he cannot even do that. I guess I'm

going to have to start from scratch. We have been using simple Harcourt Family

Learning Math Skills workbooks. I enlarge everything and if the pages are too

cluttered, I hand-write problems so he can write large. I draw boxes for his

answers so he knows where to write. I make review worksheets when he needs

extra practice (that's why we spent so long on time and money.) Reading has

always been his weak point and math was always a breeze. I don't know where his

math has gone. I just keep trying and hope it will come back. Anyone

homeschooling? What programs have worked for your child?

> > >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

MDCP is the Medically Dependent childcare Program. My son's reacitons to

vaccines did not just cause " autism. " It causeed severe gut issues, mainly

severe, debillitating constipation and mega colon. It also caused asthma

along with chronic bronchitis and pneumonia. He was dagnosed iwth a

non-specified immune disorder due to his propensity to get frequent lung

infections. He uses a nebulizer. Therefore, we were able to get him on

MDCP. It took a long time. Through MDCP, he gets a medicaid waiver and we

recieive respite care, PT, OT, and speech therapy. The waiver also covers

doctor bills and prescription meds not covered by insurance. You have to go

to a doctor who accepts medicaid, which can be a little bit of a bummer as

ours actually tried to talk me into giving my son the flu shot last year!

UGH! i stood my ground, and he didn't get nasty about it, so we have stuck

with him.

Our son has had to go to the emergency room a lot (at least before his

pediatrician opened up an urgent care after hours clinic for kids which was

a great idea). Every time we went, our copay was about $500 out of pocket.

Sometimes our son would get strep and staph at the same time, and the

antibiotic for these together runs between 500 and 600 dollars for one

little bottle! Insurance wouldn't cover it as it was a " Tier one "

medication. It doesn't take a family long in a situation like this to

become close to broke. MDCP has helped us a lot. Now we have been trying

to dig out of the debt that not being on MDCP for years accumulated.

Autism alone is not enough to qualify. Your child must have asthma or

related respiratory disorder requiring a nebulizer or your child must have

an intestinal disorder, and there may be other qualifying disorders so check

the DADS website or maybe MDCP has one on its own, but MDCP is run thorugh

DADS.

I am working hard to heal my son through biomedical interventions. If he

improves greatly then he would no longer qualify, so I am making sure that

he gets the therapies he needs. This is the first time in his life he is

getting adequate and appropriate speech, PT, and OT. After having done

everything by myself wehn he was sick with a fever every two weeks, having

respite hours has been wonderful. It has been hard to find and keep a good

respite worker, but the one I just hired is working out great! She is a

hard worker.

[Guest guest]

We love Right Start Math. Our daughter has always struggled with math; this

program really emphasizes understanding of concepts, practice through card

games, and review.

Olivia

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> My son had been doing great in math. He is 9 and was adding, regrouping, and

subtracting up to 3 digit numbers all last year. Then we did a long unit on

time and money. 2 weeks ago, we went back to adding as review and it seems he

doesn't remember a thing. This kid never forgets anything, but suddenly he

can't or won't add. Today all of his answers were the letter " H " . We are back

to 1st grade stuff now--1+1 and it seems he cannot even do that. I guess I'm

going to have to start from scratch. We have been using simple Harcourt Family

Learning Math Skills workbooks. I enlarge everything and if the pages are too

cluttered, I hand-write problems so he can write large. I draw boxes for his

answers so he knows where to write. I make review worksheets when he needs

extra practice (that's why we spent so long on time and money.) Reading has

always been his weak point and math was always a breeze. I don't know where his

math has gone. I just keep trying and hope it will come back. Anyone

homeschooling? What programs have worked for your child?

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