Being the parent of a Special Needs child, you want to make sure they get the right amount of needed activity and learning. The right curriculum for your child’s education plays an important role in this.
What if you want to play a more direct role in your child’s education activities?
What about home schooling?
Education and Activities In School
Sara goes to conventional school & uses her EasyStand Bantam to sit & stand throughout the day. Click on this photo to see a video about Sara & her caring school staff.
Even though some schools get fewer resources than others, there are many tools and options available for your child. Some of the advantages of having your child in school include:
- Interaction with other children
- Therapy services provided by the school system
- Government funding for resources like assistive devices
- Facilities for learning, activity and interaction
- Some schools provide transportation to and from school
When your child is in school, he or she does get physical activity through interaction and play with other children. Depending on the school and teachers, much of that activity would be based on a specific schedule that caters to many children at once. There are exceptions, but most schools don’t have enough resources to give each child individual attention as much they would like to.
For some parents this isn’t enough – they decide to home school their Special Needs child.
Education and Activities While Home Schooled
You may be one of the parents that decide to home school your child. When you home school your child, you are in charge of their schedule of learning, meals and activity – you are now the resource for all your child’s education.
Having your child at home has certain advantages:
- You are able to give your child more individualized attention
- You control any distractions that impact your child’s learning
- You control the amount of activity he or she gets during learning time
- You personally know what is happening with your child
- You can have therapy in the comfort of your home
- You can better control medical appointments and medications
While at home, you may have more control of the activities of your child, but there are some disadvantages to home schooling your child:
- Your child doesn’t get to interact with other children
- Funding for needed devices or tools are not as readily available
- Not all therapists will travel or work in your home
- You may still be required to earn an income for the household
Every parent wants to be there and have more control of the activity his or her child receives. You may want to have your child home or you may decide to have your child attend an organized and funded program at your local school,but no matter what you decide, look at all the good and bad points to make the right decision for you and your child.
Have you chosen a conventional school or home school for your child? What do you see as the advantages or disadvantages?
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