Homeschoolers of children with a nonverbal learning disorder please answer!?

Question

Is there a homeschool curriculum designed for a child with a nonverbal learning disorder?

Or which curriculum would you recomend for a NLD child? (middle/high school)

Thank You

Answer 1

My 13 year old has been diagnosed with NVLD.  It seems that people with these conditions or "syndromes" do not always have the exact same "symptoms".   My daughter has an incredibly difficult time with math and spelling, but can remember everything she sees, hears, or reads.

      We unschool history, social studies, and even science.  We have textbooks, encyclopedias, maps, globes, and the internet for reference materials.   We read a lot of history and do a lot of research on everything we encounter.  We do not do written work on these subjects, but we do have massive discussions about what we learn and how it all interrelates.

  I like the Apologia science for the spine of our science.

   She enjoys working through Mars Hill Latin, we have used Easy Writing and Easy Grammar and liked them.

     Math has been a huge challenge and she may never find success.  We have started "Math U See" and hope it will be useful.   Spelling is also another challenge.  She just can't spell.  All the letters get jumbled and I have tried many programs and strategies that did not work.   We tried copy work out of good literature or the encyclopedia and that seems to be beneficial.

     Packaged curriculum did not work for us at all.  Her mind just could not bend itself to the "fill in the blank mentality".  She just needed pure facts to process and compare.

    Her penmanship and typing skills are very weak and causes great frustration with her flow of learning.   It has been suggested that voice recognition software is appropiate and necessary for NVLD children.

        I can not make, nor do I want my daughter to conform to  somebody else's idea of what and how she needs to learn.  Remember the old song: "When I look back on all the c*** I learned in highschool..it's a wonder I can think at all".   That is the key.   Keep  learning interesting, relevant, real.

   When you reply to this, please let me know what has worked for you.  For us it has been a long frustrating road of trial and error.  I have never heard of NVLD before a few months ago, I always thought I was dealing more with an Aspergers type condition.  I have not had any discourse with similar cases.   Thank you.