I have a child with CAPD and short & long-term memory difficulties. He will be entering high school next year and I’m feeling totally lost. Are there any resources for helping the homeschool parent navigate through IEP’s, appropriate accomodations, handling college admissions and requirements? I’d love some sort of book that does for this topic what Cafi Cohen and Barb Shelton have done for high school and college for the typical homeschool student.
Thanks.
Re: High school & beyond
For possible accomodations, I’d suggest Mel Levine’s Educational Care book. For navigating through IEPS, I’d do a search on google or any good search engine. Someone probably has a good website out there that can help with that. Is your son’s testing recent? I think it needs to have been done in the last three years to merit him accomodations/modifications.
For a guide to college that serve students with learning differences, get hold of the K&W Guide To Colleges for Learning Disabled Students.
And if you ever decide you want to side step SATS altogether, go to www.fairtest.org and check on the fairly long of colleges which do not require the SATS or the ACTS.
Good luck.
Since nobody’s answered — how do you expect your situation to be different from the typical homeschool student? I can tell you that getting accommodations for SATs are true headaches — for *everybody.* They change the documentation requirements every few minutes and always ask for more and different — and that’s my experience at a private school for LD kids (who tend to have better documentation than just about anybody). However, if you think he can get decent scores with accommodations, those SATs or ACTs are a “standardized” measure of achievement.
It’s also well worth investigating enrolling at junior college — they have high school level classes in math and reading, for instance that might be an excellent preparation both in content and in logistics.