Homeschooling with disability's

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So got an email today that my DS is able to attend school due to his disability and then my Dd can aswel????? but as a mother on maternity leave anyway I'm at home so I wouldn't dreammm of sending my baby's to school during this time
Schools should only be for key workers and them only. Parents know how to care for their children and their needs, Yes school is an amazing time when they go because you get a break and the kids love it BUT times like this we need to put our needs to the bottom of the list and think about others who rely on schools to give the rest of us the care we need. We chose to be parents right? not to palm are kids of at any given chance unless it is ESSENTIAL
Or am I wrong ? 🤔 somehow I don't think I am

But I'm now wondering if their are any teachers on his to help me (others) out

Today we made a learning book... first time EVER my DS has sat for longer then 2mins to do an activity. He sat for an hour with me !! WOW
We found an old book an put pictures of "RED CARS" etc in and then pictures to help with counting like 1 boat, 2 cats and then we made blobs for colour learning so on and so forth. Today we've got work sheets to find colours in the garden an insects and along the way we will could
My DS is 4 and has dose syndrome an we've only just had the diagnosis so finding it hard and unsure currently as he is himself, DD is 2 and she's a lot kore advanced with her speech and counting etc. Totally heartbreaking

But as we're running out of activities to do. Do you have any suggestions? We're going to keep st it doing our big book and work sheets online but their soon going to run out....
HELP 😊

Can you ask the school for advice? I'm about to go shopping but I will pm you later with some ideas

I would suggest signing up to the twinkl website, currently this is free for parents. It's really great for resources and you could do a project a week. Code breakers / word search and colour-in pictures. Is there a favourite subject you could focus on? We've done space this week and ancient Egypt. They are only young so learning a little each day through play is all that's needed.

@Ilikefreshias thank you. The school has now closed due to lack of key workers for the number of children.... Their only in nursery 3 days a week for an afternoon so don't want to over load them. I think we're just going to have an hour a day of just sitting and learning an then an hour of PE an then just do our normal day to day stuff and still engaging learning during play time x

@stoptherideiwanttogetoff we're signed up we did that the other day I'm just not sure how to work it yet! Il have another look at that today. Thanks ! X

I can't tell if this is a wind-up or not.

@Luc1nda why is it a wind up
I'm asking if anyone has any advice teaching a child with disabilities who finds it hard and what's good things to do with them ? I try at home as a mother but never had to be a teacher? I don't have the knowledge they do.
He's only just been diagnosed so we are clueless as to what's right an wrong and what works atm as it's a sudden thing what has happened !

Ok, I'm sorry for my cynicism earlier.

It's a huge area, people study and work for years, of course, learning how to teach and perfecting their craft.

What is your main aim? Then we can help you.

Hi i have 4 at home 1 baby 1 disabled child and 2 primary school..
My disabled child got books home.
Id say go back to basic reading, numbers, painting ,colouring,counting,craft work just simple things. Go on youtube work out with joe wicks to workout for fun.
Im not a teacher but my advice is simple things,fun learning with a sn child works the best.

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You can use that one to make visuals to help your child

The second a visual story to help them understand things will be different

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I agree just take it to basics I’ll just play, sing song, make bread, sensory play or messy play.
You can turn any activity into a learning opportunity. Counting stairs, counting the laundry( how many whites? How many smelly socks)
You’ve got this! have fun, be silly.

Thank you all

Just want to get him to start to read, counting better then what he can now and try to talk properly, I know his medication and disability is a big factor to this but I can only help more now he's home all the time !
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If that’s your opinion, why send them to school or nursery at all. Home education is an available option.

I actually home educate, one of my children has special needs, and it is hard work. If my child was only 4 I actually wouldn’t be doing any formal work with them. I would spend my time with them baking, reading, arts and crafts, Lego duplo, bricks, jigsaws, colouring in, exploring nature (not so much right now), meeting with friends. A child at only four has a ridiculously short attention span never mind a child who has additional needs.

How to teach a 4 year old colour and numbers. Build a tower of lego/dublo. They say how many red bricks have we used, how many blue? I have use more then you (or less.) How many altogether.
Or I can make repeating pattern with mine.
Give me this amount of brick or I,ll give you this amount.
Look at a clock, what numbers can you see. Lets count them. Lets find 1 objects, 2 objects, 3 objects ect.
Mark make with brushes and water or paint or chalk. Mark make in sand/ flour lentils.
Do lots of physical play. Threading beedds/ buttons.
Puzzles.
REad to your child, talk about the books what,s in them, act out a bear hunt, 3 bears. Make puppets. I could go on.

@Heismyopendoor @june2007
I just don't want him to fall really far behind because looking at him he looks a normal child until you meet him and know you'd never be able to tell really and that's the cruel thing. He just can't talk properly. He knows his colours for example if we do flash cards. They take turns. Pick a card and whatever colour it is the quickest to find me a toy of that colour wins... he's great at this. If I ask for him to pass me say 2 apples or 3 strawberry's. He can do this he just cannot say them

We do a lot of cooking. We do this pretty much every day. May if be baking or doing tea, we always bug hunt in the garden- he is obsessed with ants lol, we are always making necklaces and bracelets etc with beads we have about 4 boxes and the hama beads too

So maybe iv thought to much into it and we're doing okay? Just feel like a shit parent and I could be doing more because I see other children his age and their a lot more advanced .... but I need to remember this cannot he helped he is very bright considering his illness I suppose. I'm a lucky mum x

He’s only four? How can he fall behind? I take it he wasn’t at school yet? Is he due to start this august/September?

@Heismyopendoor he starts in sept. His main thing is speech. Iv been soeach therapy with him an he has it at school also. Iv been given tasks to do at home an one included making the big book with activities in for him. He seems to be going backwards atm and I'm not sure if it's medication related I don't know. I think I need just breath and let him be w happy child. He will get the grasp of things when he's ready x

@Heismyopendoor don't think it's helped my SIL sayin he should be doing this An writing his own name etc now constantly and I feel even more shit for it as she's training to become a teaching assistant so she thinks she knows it all and her kids did it? X

We're all going a bit backwards at the moment, aren't we? My diet and exercise went to pot for about three days.

I certainly wouldn't worry about doing any formal teaching with a four year old. Play lots of games, especially board games or cards. Cooking, baking, crafts, exercise, singing, dancing etc. You could watch an episode of number blocks each day (watch them in the right order), look out for examples for the rest of the day and his number will come along nicely

Research speech therapy ideas.

It sounds as though you're doing fine.

@Luc1nda thank you!
we are doing pretty much all of that and whatever we do we count along and silly things like that.
And my diet is way out the window. I'm comfort eating and really need to stop and get fit and loose this baby weight lol all fun and games right now !

lots of kids can’t write their own name at that age, never mind disabilities and extra needs.

My kids did a little bit of time at school before I started home educating them. The schools said the best thing for them to be able to do when they started school was know how to zip up their own jacket, put their shoes on and off, know a nursery rhyme or two and that’s about it. If you try and teach them how to read it can actually be detrimental as you may not be teaching them the way the school does, a teacher then has to spend extra time trying to help and correct what they have learned.

Let four years old be four year olds :)

@Heismyopendoor your right I could be doing right for wrong so il just stick to basic stuff ! But he can't get dressed and undressed. He is fully potty trained an doesn't wear nappy's but he needs help to take his pants on and off etc and he's slowly needing more help with basically everythin and sometimes walking 🙁 my Dd2 can fully dress herself. Pack her own bag and get the right shoes to match her outfit etc she's so independent and she does help her big brother a lot she is fantastic with him.

This evening alone he's had 7 seizures in 3 minutes. I'm slowly breaking inside.
But thanks for your support it really helps knowing I'm not doing anything wrong and I am actually doing enough regardless of what SIL says x

my SIL sayin he should be doing this An writing his own name etc now

She clearly doesn't know what she is talking about then.
Even for children without additional needs, there is no expectation they should be writing their names before they start school.

Is it Doose syndrome, that is related to epilepsy and a learning difficulty ?

If he is struggling with speech, have you thought about using Makaton signs to support his speech ? YOu sign along to the key words that you speak.
There is a website here but my favourite resource is on Facebook, and called Makaton with Lucinda. If you like the page, you get a sign a day into your feed, and can begin to learn as you go along.

@BackforGood yea we're in the process of getting the doose diagnosis confirmed our speciallist said he's certain it's that. We're still abit clueless it's all seemed to of happened overnight. But we've done makaton from them all been baby's. My Dd can sign most things he just doesn't seem to get it but he's come up with his own signs in some sort of way that I understand as I'm always with him and I seem to understand his speach a lot more then anyone else
She just try's be better then everyone else but then DP puts a lot of pressure on me thinking she's right all the time as she's training in that field x

That was for main stream school for the jacket, don't stress about that. I just meant to show you the kind of things they were looking for, not kids that know how to read and write, or five year olds that can do pre algebra :)

Your sil obviously thinks she is the be all and end all. Tell her to come back to you once she’s got a kid with disabilities like yours. That usually shuts them up.

@Heismyopendoor I know your right. we are trying with him and he's getting better everyday then some days will just be awful but he's out amazing baby and he's perfect how he is. She doesn't even know him to judge him, I think il just have to message her and put her straight because she's making DP feel awful hat he's not at the level she's suggesting he should be at like "hers were" because he's in a mainstream nursery (I'm currently in the process of re applying for him a 1-1 aid) and he's only just below the target for children his age anyway and he's only just turned 4- the only downfall comes to speach and theirs a boy in his class who will not speak what so ever.
Every child is different. Iv learnt that having 3 myself and 3 SC