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A+ MATH  A Great Site!  Create and print your own set of flashcards online! Try out the Flashcard Creator. See the Worksheets section, where you can print worksheets to practice offline. Try the Homework Helper to check your homework solutions.

Teach With Movies - www.teachwithmovies.org  Use movies to introduce and help children learn. This site is filled with lesson plans on movies you can rent.

A Place to Get Downloads

 GROWN-UPS PLACE at http://www.kidsdomain.com/grown.html is filled with download and ideas for your PC or MAC...enjoy!

• MathFactory Lite Print out free math worksheets. Mathematics Worksheet Factory Lite will lighten any teacher's workload. With a few clicks of the mouse Math Worksheets will generate random math problems covering addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Changing the font or adding a graphics is just as simple. http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/pc/mathfactorylite.html

FunBrain Has OnLine Products to Help You. Fun brain has games that our fun and easy for our special learners. and they help mom when life just gets a bit too crazy.

• MAKE YOUR OWN CURRICULUM TESTS

• Word Confusion - Homonyms and Easily Confused Words http://funbrain.com/whichword/

• Flash Cards - Print These Out http://funbrain.familyeducation.com/flashcard/

• Super on-line learning games

Programs For Special Learners

SIMPLIFIED LEARNING PRODUCTS Joyce Herzog  www.joyceherxog.com
Luke's Life List a great Individualize Education Planner for life skills.

Note from Toni: Card/picture for communication, no matter the label, is much like sign language VISUAL. The person spends all their time watching for communication and they don't HEAR the words. They either don't learn to speak or it comes extremely slow. We learn to speak by listening and learning to hear. Improving auditory processing and making sure the brain knows it has the parts is a better approach in my opinion if the child has auditory processing issues and is not deaf. There are several activities we use to accomplish this that are NOT pictures, cards or sign language. Jodee you were exactly right not using the photo cards and just spoke slower, clearly and with less words to give Liz time to THINK and do something with the words she heard. It is important to learn to listen and organize the brain. www.kidscanlearn.net

PC and MAC program for NON VERBALS.  Mayer-Johnson Co. P.O. Box 1579 Solana Beach, CA 92075 USA  Phone 800.588.4548 Phone 858.550.0084 Fax 858.550.0449  Boardmaker is a graphics database containing over 3,000 Picture Communication Symbols (from PCS Books I, II, & III) in bitmapped clip art form. The program allows you to:

• Make a professional looking communication display in minutes.

• Quickly find and paste pictures into your display with a mouse click.

• Make the pictures any size and with any spacing.

• Print and/or save your display on disk for later use.

• Print displays in black & white or color (if you have a color printer).

• Store, name, retrieve, resize, and paste scanned or custom-drawn pictures.

• Make worksheets, picture instruction sheets, reading books, journals, or posters. These may be made in Boardmaker or by pasting the pictures in your desktop publishing program.  
  http://www.mayer-johnson.com/Software/Boardmkr.htm 

DO TO LEARN...Printable organizational charts, grids and pictures for non-verbal and special learners. 

Homeschool Sites Worth Visiting . . .

ALL-IN-ONE HOMESCHOOL RESOURCE CENTER Teresa Kellerman's site filled with tips and ideas "I think a mom/caretaker knows a child with special needs better than anyone. Be flexible, yet firm -- be willing to change the days activities, but stress that we have school from x to x hours." 

ARBI SCHOOLHOUSE - Educating the Child with FAS/FAE. Discover Reality-based education, the development of an external brain, what won't work in managing behavior and more. 

The Chalkboard  Preschool/Kindergarten craft recipies, holiday activities, art activities, curriculum ideas. Great ideas for homeschool and parent supported learning!  Here are some of my favorite stops...These are designed for younger students but they work great for my FASE kids!   Art Activities   |   Craft Recipes  |   Teacher Tips   |   Self-Concept Activities

Homeschooling on a Shoestring - Online resources to help cut costs while homeschooling

Homeschool Find It - Are you tired of sifting through tens of thousands of links on the 'mega-sites' trying to find the homeschooling information you need? Then try Homeschool Find-It! (Searchable database for homeschoolers)

U Seek U Find Home Schools & HomeWork: Special Needs has a list of links that cover many different special needs areas.

Jon's Homeschool Resource Page Looking for links that are organized and easy to find. Check out Jon's Site.  http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/TOC.f.html

Teel Family Home Page An Alaska Homeschool family site well worth the visit. Activities, crafts, unit studies...a wonderful place to explore.

Kulp Family Homeschool. Ideas and help for working with FASD, ADHD, ADD and learning disabilities. Site owned by www.betterendings.org which is filled with information for prenatal alcohol exposure, foster care and adoption.

Christian Homeschool Fellowship: Homeschool FAQs 22 questions and answers that many have about homeschooling

Homeschooling Children with Special Needs Here are some places to check out for support & information. I don't know of too many moms who, at one time or another, hasn't had the painful experience of stepping on Legos barefoot. You look at these pieces & KNOW there must be more you can do with them, but what? Let's face it, the price of some of these kits rivals the most expensive texts, so we might as well be able to use them for school! Check this link to learn how to integrate Legos & K'nex into your curriculum

And Some More Links

• ChildU -www.childu.com

• Encarta Learning Zone - www.encarta.msn.com/ schoolhouse/ default.asp

• FreeZone - www.freezone.com

• Home Education Magazine - www.home-ed-magazine.com/

• Homes Cool - www.homes-cool.com/

• Home School Legal Defense Association - www.hslda.org

• Home School Zone - www.homeschoolzone.com

• Homeschool.com -www.homeschool.com

• Homeschooler Freebies - www.geocities.com/ tolerance_diversity

• Inkspot.com - www.inkspot.com

• Jons Homeschool Resource Page - www.midnightbeach.com/ hs/

• Library Spot - www.libraryspot.com

• National Geographic.com - www.nationalgeographic.com

• National Home Education Network - www.nhen.org

• The New York Times on the Web Learning Network - www.nytimes.com/learning/

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