Home Schooling Children with Special Needs (Paperback)

by Sharon Hensley (Author)

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Product Description
It is estimated that 10% of American families have children with special learning needs. Sharon Hensley gives her readers a fresh perspective in facing the challenges of home schooling children with special needs. Parents will appreciate her first hand experience dealing with the frustrations and joys of raising and teaching children with special needs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 181 pages
• Publisher: Noble Publishing Associates (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568570244
• ISBN-13: 978-1568570242
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,268,584 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderfully informative and practical, May 23, 2000

By	John Hansen (california) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Schooling Children With Special Needs (Paperback)

I was captivated by this book from the beginning.First she explains the differences between learning disabilities and normal variations in learning styles.Then she deals with parental academic expections and realistic ones.She also dispells the myth that homeschooling is the magical cure for learning disabilities,rather the opportunity to tailor a program to best suit the individual.This book is packed full of resources to help with a specific need or area .She combines her child develpment and special education knowledge with the honesty and humility of a mother who homeschools three children, one who is autistic. I would reccomend this book to anyone.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical and Uplifting, June 30, 2006

By	Mrs. M (CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Schooling Children With Special Needs (Paperback)

This book would be very helpful to any homeschooling parent with a "high needs" child, whether or not the child has a disability label. Sharon Hensley does an amazing job of including both very practical information along with inspiring and uplifting viewpoints. The book is compact, and easy to read, yet not simplistic. Before I started to home school my children, I was a special education teacher for many years, and have a Master's Degree in special education. Even though I've done a lot of reading and research, I still found this book to be very useful.

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best out there, January 30, 2009

By	Jennifer Z - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Schooling Children With Special Needs (Paperback)

Among the best books on homeschooling I have read.

If you are not Christian, the intro and some of the short first section might bug you, but she doesn't stuff Christianity down your throat like so many "Christian Perspective" books are apt to do, just relates some of the authors personal perspective, as a Christian coming to terms with her child's disability. It is the only part of the book that really discusses religion, and it is pretty short.

It is well written, reasonable, uplifting and intelligent. It discusses a full range of learning differences and how to manage and evaluate the way to find the best learning path for your child. It helped me in the process of realistically setting goals for my son where he is instead of where I wish he could be. I sincerely wish I would have found this book a few years ago. This book is one of the few that will make it's way from a library rental to part of my permanent collection.