Distance Learning

<p>Do a lot of those with learning disabilities feel far more comfortable with distance learning programs? Are there any specifically catered towards those with disabilities? And can one take a lot of upper level coourses through these as well? It seems like virtually all of them only offer lower level courses.....</p>

<p>You might ask this on the homeschooling board. </p>

<p>I can't answer the first two questions, although I know there are plenty of LD folks homeschooling. I started homeschooling my daughter in 8th grade due to the deficiencies of what she was getting in public school (she had always been in special ed). But really, what she needed at that point was remediation, which I provided.</p>

<p>What do you mean by lower level? There are plenty of programs with high school level courses -- you can also get college level courses through a number of colleges. Just google ... Then there is the Stanford EPGY program, which offers a number of high level courses and recently announced the beginning of an entire distance high school. As far as AP, folks like PAhomeschoolers and Apex Learning offer some on a distance learning basis.</p>

<p>I used to have a good link with a comprehensive list of distance programs but I can't find it. But if you search, you can find programs. Offhand, I know courses are offered by Missouri-Columbia, Texas Tech, Nebraska, and Kansas, as well as other colleges. Then you have a bunch of distance high schools.</p>

<p>BYU has a sweet high school as well as university program that is online. The high school on is neat because you can graduate from there, but the college one does not have a degree program unless you want to go to BYU and fufill their residency requirement. </p>

<p>In my humble opinion, an easy rul of thumb is...for uni's... if the uni has sports teams that you have heard of, then no one will question things later on! If it is a high school, then if it is run through your home state or even another state and has proof of the board of ed of that state running things, then you are all cool. Except for BYU because their high school program is more universal in order to make sure folks from other countries are alright.</p>