homeschool for LD son?

Parents Forum Learning Differences and Challenges - LD, ADHD
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<p>My son has an IEP (Specific Learning Disability); main problems seem to center on central auditory processing and some short term memory issues. At public school, with the help of an educational advocate, I have been able to get speech and counseling services provided. He is a sophomore in high school.</p>

<p>He has an unusual hobby- paintball. Its actually more than a hobby. Its his passion and his dream is to be a pro pball player. It actually has been very good for him, even though I was very skeptical about it at first. He is quite talented at it, and it is good for his self-esteem.</p>

<p>The team he is on does a lot of traveling around the country for various tournaments, and it interferes with his school schedule. He is begging me to homeschool him.</p>

<p>I have a little experience with homeschooling, having homeschooled my d for awhile in 1st grade, but how compatible is LD with homeschooling? I worry about how he would receive the services he is now getting, such as speech and counseling. I look at the whole idea with a mixture of excitement and dread. Excitement because I kind of like the idea, dread because I'm afraid it would take too much time away from my endeavors to go back to work, and I know from experience with on-line classes that it gets old very fast if you just have to hole up and work at home on the computer.</p>

<p>Socially he does quite well when in his element, with his pball buddies. He has made great strides with the help of the counseling at school in advocating for himself with adults.</p>

<p>I read a lot in the past about John Holt's unschooling ideas, and I'm intrigued by combining the homeschooling with paintball travel. I worked for 7 years as an aide with elementary LD kids.
Am I nuts to even consider this?
I think I will also post this in the homeschool area.
Thank you!</p>

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<p>just bumping...
Happy 2007!</p>

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<p>homeschooling could be very compatible with LDs as it is much more flexible than a conventional classroom
Our district and several others, have resources for homeschool students, and allow homeschool students to still be registered with the district ( which increases money from state)
I would check out with your district to see if they offer something comparable</p>

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<p>thanks, I'll check it out. Anyone else with experience doing this? Does anyone's district still supply the speech and counselling services when you are homeschooling? I would think they would have to if its in the IEP, just not sure how the IEP comes into play with homeschooling.</p>

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I don't think that a student is required to attend a school in the district to be eligible for services.
For example, when my daughter was in elementary school ( private) she was eligible for services, however, she was not assigned to the school closest to her private school, but to one that was closest to our home.
The district determined that she would go to her private school in the morning, then after lunch a taxi would pick her up, take her to the other school about 7 miles away, where she would spend an hour, and then be taken back to the private school again hopefully not having missed more than a couple hours of class two days a week.
We decided it wasn't worth it, but as your son is older, he probably has more autonomy than my daughter did at 6, I knew she was not going to get in a stinky taxi, she probably would have jumped out.
But as he is probably around 15 years old, I would look at having him transition to a 504, as that is what his accomodations will fall under in the workplace and in college.</p>