We are considering home education for our 8ye... - FASD Support
We are considering home education for our 8year old ,any advice? Thanks ,from love2nag
Hiya,
sorry can't give any advice but I've also considered home school for my son too, so interested in any advice too !
Thanks
Momof5 xx
I also have 5kids at home but I am only interested in home educating the youngest 2who have sen.What is your position ?I have contacted our authority and know how to de register and the contact I have with our lea,but wether it is the best for our girls
The FASD Trust is about to launch its home education hub as lots of people are home schooling. Would advise insisting that the local authority keep up any Statement in case you later want your child to go back into school and it also ensures post 16 they can access any special needs colleges or other provision, if necessary. Also, you can consider flexi-school, which is done in agreement with the child's head teacher and is an agreement between school and home whereby you remove your child from school for certain subjects or days or times of day. We have for example known of people removing their child and taking them horse riding, agreeing school would do literacy and home would do Maths. Have another child who only attends 4 days per week, and goes elsewhere for one day.
Bottom line is these kids don't fit the system, so at each stage you have to adapt to what is right for them, not what the system says is next........
(PS personally spent a happy afternoon sat out in the back garden, enjoying the sunshine, painting flower pots and planting seeds, then playing with water and the plastic tea set which was great for a Maths lesson on subtraction and measuring fluid.)
Hi, we home educate our son of nearly 7. We did this temporarily with another child prior to adopting our son. We researched all options and even had email discussions with people like Diane Malbin, Ed Rielly and Bryan Post. Sadly, against their advice and our gut instinct and through professional pressure we sent our child to school. It was a very small private school set in beautiful grounds with the most nurturing teacher one could ask for. There was an initial honeymoon period but it doesn't matter how much information is given and in what way, they JUST DON'T GET IT! We returned to home education.
It is not an easy path to follow but much less stressful than school issues. The law on home ed depends on where you live. We are in Scotland and have never had to request to withdraw as our son has never been to state school. Schoolhouse a home education organisation has been invaluable to us and can easily be found on the Internet.
We have many health professionals involved with us and most are supportive of home ed. we meet up regularly with other home educating families but that's not all roses because they don't understand fas either. We have a strict routine and structure in place but do not do "school at home". We researched literacy and math programmes and after neuropsychology assessment, decided on the "nessy deluxe" for children with dyslexia. Our son is showing signs of this but young to be certain but he does need repetition. For math we use dynamo math and for the same reason. We considered stern math but is expensive. Both types of programmes have apparently been successful in studies on children with fas. Other than that, most is incidental learning, walking and talking, nature etc. we have found the computer invaluable and the cat in the hat learning series of books have been excellent. We bake and make, plan and do and otherwise concentrate on life skills. Exams and qualifications if wanted are available to take. We concentrate on strengths and take a lot of physical activity. Socially our child is more accepted out of school. Home ed doesn't solve all the fas related issues but does quite a few. Remember and try to take time for yourself. It is demanding but very very rewarding and worthwhile.
It would be great to be able to link up with other home educating families with fas and delighted that there is to be a home education hub!
Hi, we home educate our son of nearly 7. We did this temporarily with another child prior to adopting our son. We researched all options and even had email discussions with people like Diane Malbin, Ed Rielly and Bryan Post. Sadly, against their advice and our gut instinct and through professional pressure we sent our child to school. It was a very small private school set in beautiful grounds with the most nurturing teacher one could ask for. There was an initial honeymoon period but it doesn't matter how much information is given and in what way, they JUST DON'T GET IT! We returned to home education.
It is not an easy path to follow but much less stressful than school issues. The law on home ed depends on where you live. We are in Scotland and have never had to request to withdraw as our son has never been to state school. Schoolhouse a home education organisation has been invaluable to us and can easily be found on the Internet.
We have many health professionals involved with us and most are supportive of home ed. we meet up regularly with other home educating families but that's not all roses because they don't understand fas either. We have a strict routine and structure in place but do not do "school at home". We researched literacy and math programmes and after neuropsychology assessment, decided on the "nessy deluxe" for children with dyslexia. Our son is showing signs of this but young to be certain but he does need repetition. For math we use dynamo math and for the same reason. We considered stern math but is expensive. Both types of programmes have apparently been successful in studies on children with fas. Other than that, most is incidental learning, walking and talking, nature etc. we have found the computer invaluable and the cat in the hat learning series of books have been excellent. We bake and make, plan and do and otherwise concentrate on life skills. Exams and qualifications if wanted are available to take. We concentrate on strengths and take a lot of physical activity. Socially our child is more accepted out of school. Home ed doesn't solve all the fas related issues but does quite a few. Remember and try to take time for yourself. It is demanding but very very rewarding and worthwhile.
It would be great to be able to link up with other home educating families with fas and delighted that there is to be a home education hub!
Sorry it has taken a while to thank you for your positive reply about home ed. I am still at the thinking stage and some research .My daughter would not be at home on her own as we have a younger child with probable fas. My 2 major concerns would be time for myself and husband( we have 4 birth children age 16 +) and making sure we were not leaving ourselves open for criticism from local authority.We do not have a diagnosis but are pursing a referral to Surrey nhs via our pct.Any advice would be great .from love2nag
