Special Education at Home

Articles Relating to Special-Needs Education

• Your Special Child
• Joshua's Work
• Getting By and Getting Beyond
• Teaching a Child with Down Syndrome: In the Beginning
• Reading Techniques for Struggling Learners

Web and Print Resources

• Web Resources
• Recommended Books
• PDFs on Specific Disorders

Is your child struggling to read? We can help.

Through Passport Learning, BJU Press offers the Academy of Reading program to help struggling students. Visit our Passport Learning site to find out more.

Additional Resources

• DVD: What to Do with the Child Who Is Having Academic Difficulties
• DVD: Identifying Speech and Language Problems or Mild Disabilities

Special Education Web Resources

• National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY)—Gives information on a number of different disabilities and their educational implications
• Learning Disabilities Association of America— Includes teaching strategies for children with learning disabilities and ADHD
• Home School Legal Defense Association—Gives legal information for families homeschooling special-needs children
• National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network—Offers support for Christian families homeschooling special-needs children.
• Study Strategies—Gives study strategies for the visual learner, auditory learner, and kinesthetic learner

Publishers of Materials for Special-Needs Students

• Academic Therapy Publications—Teaching resources and informational books as well as assessment materials
• Educator’s Publishing Service—Reading intervention resources
• Essential Learning Products—Practice workbooks for skill development in all major curriculum areas
• Handwriting Without Tears—Multisensory handwriting curriculum
• High Noon Books—High interest/low vocabulary books for struggling readers
• Super Duper Publications—Specializes in materials for the speech and language market
• Touch Math—Supplement that uses touch points to help students perform basic math functions
• Wilson Language Training—Multisensory reading and spelling curriculum
• Woodbine House—Books on disabilities for parents and teachers