My son, 13, and diagnosed with Childhood Autism has always been homeschooled by myself and his dad.
I would be happy to be in contact with any other parents homeschooling.
My son, 13, and diagnosed with Childhood Autism has always been homeschooled by myself and his dad.
I would be happy to be in contact with any other parents homeschooling.
Just wanted to introduce myself as another homeschooler. 
We'd actually made the decision to homeschool our sons before we had a diagnosis of ASD for both of them, so they've never been in school. As both my lads struggle a great deal with sensory defensiveness, I think that they would have found the noisiness of school very difficult - I dread to think how stressed they would have become. They also have issues with concentration and focus - homeschooling means that we can do work in short bursts - which suits them very well. We don't follow a curriculum and are mostly led by their interests and enthusiasms - altho' we do insist on a little dull stuff like times tables now and again.
We are lucky because there are masses of home ed groups locally, and we are slowly building up a bit of a social circle. I worry that they miss out on some of the opportunities of school (organised sport/drama for example), but hopefully we will be able to find ways to bring those things into their lives as they get older and we identify more resources.
Just wanted to introduce myself as another homeschooler. We'd actually made the decision to homeschool our sons before we had a diagnosis of ASD for both of them, so they've never been in school. As both my lads struggle a great deal with sensory defensiveness, I think that they would have found the noisiness of school very difficult - I dread to think how stressed they would have become. They also have issues with concentration and focus - homeschooling means that we can do work in short bursts - which suits them very well. We don't follow a curriculum and are mostly led by their interests and enthusiasms - altho' we do insist on a little dull stuff like times tables now and again.
We are lucky because there are masses of home ed groups locally, and we are slowly building up a bit of a social circle. I worry that they miss out on some of the opportunities of school (organised sport/drama for example), but hopefully we will be able to find ways to bring those things into their lives as they get older and we identify more resources.
