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11-20-2015, 10:15 PM | #1 |
Climbing Rose
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homeschooling daughter with Down Syndrome
Hi everyone,
My daughter will be starting K in September and I do want to keep her home but I have no clue what to do with her to help her learn and to be perfectly honest I feel like I just need the break of her going to school. She has Down Syndrome and really severe ADHD and she is very delayed. I don't know if she would learn much in K at home regardless of how I teach her. BUT the thing is that we live in a province where if I keep her home I will get $10,500 to use towards therapy, activities etc. I can pick what I want to spend it on. If she goes to school we get nothing which means all she gets is her 1:1 aide and a measly 20 minutes of speech therapy once a week. And that is only for 2 out of the 3 terms. I don't know what to do. I will also have a 6 year old doing grade 1, a 3 year old, and a 4 month old.
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11-21-2015, 02:08 AM | #2 |
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Re: homeschooling daughter with Down Syndrome
Can you spend some of the money on a mothers helper or respite so you can homeschool her and have a break from time to time also? It sounds like that would be your ideal.
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11-21-2015, 04:05 AM | #3 |
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Re: homeschooling daughter with Down Syndrome
How is she already old enough for kindergarten?????
You could spend some of it on preschool if you need a break and she has delays. Or enroll her in an activity that takes a long time but that you also think would be good for her. But if you can spend some on an aide that would probably be best. Maybe go to a college and find someone who is majoring in special ed? Honestly I think $10,500 would be enough for therapy that would count as Kindergarten without you doing much else to educate her. I definitely count some of my dd's vision therapy as school time. If you need more to do with her, I would look on pinterest for Montessori activities for X year olds with X being whatever age you think she is functioning at. She may, for instance, enjoy cards matching mom and baby animals, clipping clothespins to the edge of a pot, matching colors, matching toy animals to a picture of that animal, pouring rice or beans into pitchers, etc.
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11-21-2015, 12:06 PM | #4 |
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Re: homeschooling daughter with Down Syndrome
I am not sure how it works in Canada, but I know in the US, if you sent her to school, you would have a hard time pulling her out if you decided to homeschool her later. Here, the issue is funding, and if they are receiving special ed funding for a child, they will dig their heels in and fight letting a child go because of the money their school would lose. I don't know if that is a consideration in Canada or not (I'm sure they operate completely differently), but thought I would mention it just in case.
Yeah, it sounds like hiring your own aide for home might be the way to go, if they give you that money towards her education.
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11-21-2015, 12:47 PM | #5 |
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Re: homeschooling daughter with Down Syndrome
I think it sounds like a much better option than what she would get at school. Do you get any respite care at this point? Will you have access to a teacher or aide that administers the homeschool program? I know a little bit about the homeschooling in that area and I know they have someone to help with learning plans. I would think you would use the first years money to pay for an aide and set up a learning/therapy area for her.
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11-21-2015, 08:01 PM | #6 |
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Re: homeschooling daughter with Down Syndrome
I'm not sure who you're with right now but I know that the special ed. departments of some enrollment options are full...and there are kids waiting to get in. Do you know if that will be an issue?
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11-21-2015, 08:31 PM | #7 |
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Re: homeschooling daughter with Down Syndrome
I don't have personal experience, but a very good friend homeschooled her 6 kids all the way through, except her 5th child who has Down syndrome. He started attending school in middle school I believe because when his older siblings graduated, there wasn't enough stimulation at home. He is about 19 now but developmentally age 2-3.
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11-22-2015, 05:54 AM | #8 |
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homeschooling daughter with Down Syndrome
I have a friend who homeschools her daughter with Down's Syndrome and Autism. She has done I wonderful job I wish she were on this forum to comment. Her daughter is 10 now but if I recall correctly at that age her focus was mainly OT and Speech therapies and practicing those things at home and yes, respite care was important for her. One of her key reasons for homeschooling was the school had really low expectations of her daughter based on testing but she didn't believe the testing was accurate. I don't quiz her on how her child is doing or anything but I know from the times we have played with them she can definitely read and write and do basic math.
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11-22-2015, 11:31 AM | #9 |
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Re: homeschooling daughter with Down Syndrome
That is early for any child to start a scholastic heavy type of learning program so would def keep her at home and try different therapies and as far as the learning part goes you know what she responds to best.Does she like to be read to? Just using every day life and play for learning is probably the most helpful at that age for kids of all abilities.Rolling a ball back & forth and you can talk about how the ball is round and the color is blue.Or how her plate is a circle and the color is green.
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11-25-2015, 05:40 PM | #10 |
Climbing Rose
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Re: homeschooling daughter with Down Syndrome
Thanks everyone. Ok now to try to remember what you all said. First of all I would like to put her in preschool again next year BUT that would mean paying the preschool and paying an aide since there is no preschool that will except her without an aide so that would end up costing me more money than just having the aide here at my house.
I do have mother's helpers I can hire and they would be great for entertaining my other kids so I could give Ava some one on one time. and cheaper! I would like to hire an aide to do some of the more difficult tasks with Ava....someone who could implement our program, but they cost 20-25 an hour. We don't get any respite right now but we are on the waitlist. If I could use all her money for weekly speech therapy and her aide I would be happy. My oldest daughter is already homeschooling through a private school ( they have weekly community classes ) and so A would be able to access their special needs program as siblings have priority. She could go to "school" for one full day and one half day a week at this school and still be considered home schooled. And it is free. But I do have to pay an aide and I would want to make sure they could actually teach her things there not just "babysit" her. Reason being is that they rent a church space rather than having an actual school and so they might not have access to all different kinds of activities that my daughter might need in order to make the learning at her level. I definitely feel like putting her in school would be the selfish thing to do. It is just so hard to keep her level of energy and make sure my other kids don't exclude her. ( which means I need to keep house tidy so she doesn't grab everything and doesn't need to stay in the baby gated living room.)
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