I am now 63 & have had 8 children of my own 3 with Dyslexia, 2 with Aspergers, 1 with ADHD & 1 with Epilepsy. For 14 years I educated some of my children at home & here in England you have to have an Education Officer who comes to check your children’s work & make sure the parent/parents are not nutty, are actually educating as they say they are, are not abusing their children & can provide a whole years Curriculum in advance as well as evidence of the past 12 months.

So it isn’t made easy for us to educate at home & the stress levels can be extremely high. I pass on information to everyone I know when I find a good site like yours.

What I am doing now is in its infancy, but I am supporting parents who have had any Autistic Spectrum Diagnosis for their child, by holding a bi-weekly club. I give support, discuss education, especially pre-school. I know from my own experiences that it is vital to teach as much of the social communication skills as possible, prior to the age of 5.

I pass on web addresses & useful links & in all honesty 9 out of 10 of the sites I have found have been in the USA. You are so much freer with your information, you are most definitely generous with your freebies. Some of which I have used & can only bless you for them.
A lot of the parents I am involved with are like I had to be, doing this on a shoestring. It is really hard during this unsure economic time to find the money that is needed to Home-Educate.
This is why freebies, free resources, printables and any information that can be gained online is so precious.

I wish I had had all these things available to me when I was doing home education. I did not even have a computer or internet access at the time & every piece of worksheets that I produced had to be by hand & duplicated three times for the three older children I was teaching at the time. I then had to work on separate sheets for the youngest.
It involved me in reading a copious amount of books to get the information in the first place & I usually took 2/3 weeks holiday during the summer to research & produce my year of curriculum ideas to cover all subject.
I am I suppose lucky that I had the type of brain that worked like a tree, I would get one idea in one subject & somehow managed to link those ideas, like tree branches across the whole curriculum.

Now my energy levels are a lot lower & although I do not wish to give up, I have to say I am very reliant on the support that I get from sites like yours in the USA. I have recently been diagnosed with a small brain tumour, that gives me many headaches, but all the time I can mask the pain I will continue.
I guess I wanted basically to say, how precious your site is to my mums & how much we thank you with all our hearts for the resources & freebies. A generation of children with problems will grow up the better for sites like yours…..God Bless You. Anne