Homeschooling curriculum for autistic kidos....

[Mayzoo]

What curriculum do you homeschooling parents use for your autistic kidos? Sweetie is expressively delayed, receptively normal, she is 5 and is not capable of self starting reciting the ABC's or count to 10. I think that is part of the verbal delay issue--she will repeat them after me....but not on her own.

So, what curriculum do you use?

[Mother's Heart]

I'm no real help on curriculum. I homeschool my son but I have generally devised my own curriculum. Almost all teacher made materials and individually adapted choice of lessons. Basically I integrated concepts and skills into challenging, meaningful, and functional context.

There IS one program I like for teaching Math. It's called Moving With Math and is manipulative based all the way up to 8th grade Algebra. Also they have two versions of the pre-k through 2nd grade part of the curriculum. One is like the program for the older kids...the other is similar but incorporates literature into the lessons, using books you can easily find in the library, and lots of teddy bear counters. :)

http://www.movingwithmath.com/

[mcewen]

What curriculum do you homeschooling parents use for your autistic kidos? Sweetie is expressively delayed, receptively normal, she is 5 and is not capable of self starting reciting the ABC's or count to 10. I think that is part of the verbal delay issue--she will repeat them after me....but not on her own.

So, what curriculum do you use?

I don't actually homeschool but the curriculum that they follow in their school is TEACCH which closely follows wha the mainstream classes follow - I think that might be a good place to start.
Best wishes
http://whittereronautism.com

[tgrimes]

My son was in the beginning of 2nd when I took him out to homeschool and he really was not able to cooperate on academics at the time so we spent a lot of time checking out (nonfiction) books at the library, playing cards, board games, learning games, cooking, gardening, going to the store and seeing if you could make it without a 'problem', grocery-store math, fishing, field trips, etc.
We did move on to workbooks once his cooperation was better; at a large bookstore you have a pretty good selection for that age range.