Home Educating My 13 year old Daughter

I had a similar experiance with my aspi daughter. She was refered to a compleatly inapropriate pupil referal unit aged 15 because she found school really difficult due to anxiety; So I spent 6 months homeschooling her. She is a really inderpendant learner, so did not need very much input of me.

We found that its (relivly) easy to self study maths and science with the relivant text books. However we did need a tutor for english.

It is good idea from the outset to come up with a plan, does she want to aim to do gcses or L2 fs? Or do you want to explore alternitive qualifications eg. music grades. The air caddettes offer a range of qualifications for under 16's wich are open to everyone.

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sarahwhiteman28 said:

Hello my name is Sarah and I am after some advice/support regarding home educating my daughter. She is 13 years old and is diagnosed with Autsim and severe anxiety alongside Sensory Processing Disorder. She coped ok in primary school but absolutely fell apart when she started secondary school.

She was like a square peg that they were trying to fit into a round hole. Specialist provision wasn't really an option as she isn't classed as having moderate learning difficulties. I argued that the fact she couldn't handle the classroom and school environment is hindering her learning (if she's not there she's not learning!). But it wasn't enough.

So i decided to Home Educate her. We originally hired a tutor to come in and teach the core subjects (Maths, English and Science) but that proved to be too costly. I am currently using a site called EdPlace which seems to be doing the job.

Does anybody have any ideas for projects etc that i can do with her? And also does anybody have any further sdvice?

Many thanks for reading,

Sarah x

I had a similar experiance with my aspi daughter. She was refered to a compleatly inapropriate pupil referal unit aged 15 because she found school really difficult due to anxiety; So I spent 6 months homeschooling her. She is a really inderpendant learner, so did not need very much input of me.

We found that its (relivly) easy to self study maths and science with the relivant text books. However we did need a tutor for english.

It is good idea from the outset to come up with a plan, does she want to aim to do gcses or L2 fs? Or do you want to explore alternitive qualifications eg. music grades. The air caddettes offer a range of qualifications for under 16's wich are open to everyone.

www.raf.mod.uk/.../trainingandeducation.cfm

sarahwhiteman28 said:

Hello my name is Sarah and I am after some advice/support regarding home educating my daughter. She is 13 years old and is diagnosed with Autsim and severe anxiety alongside Sensory Processing Disorder. She coped ok in primary school but absolutely fell apart when she started secondary school.

She was like a square peg that they were trying to fit into a round hole. Specialist provision wasn't really an option as she isn't classed as having moderate learning difficulties. I argued that the fact she couldn't handle the classroom and school environment is hindering her learning (if she's not there she's not learning!). But it wasn't enough.

So i decided to Home Educate her. We originally hired a tutor to come in and teach the core subjects (Maths, English and Science) but that proved to be too costly. I am currently using a site called EdPlace which seems to be doing the job.

Does anybody have any ideas for projects etc that i can do with her? And also does anybody have any further sdvice?

Many thanks for reading,

Sarah x