Develop a Student Learning Profile
This workshop will help you identify your child’s learning profile so you can apply it in teaching your special needs child or struggling learner immediately. Because you know your child better than anyone, it is easy to tailor your teaching to fit your child’s needs and abilities. A documented learning profile helps you be a better teacher and allows you to pivot at a moment’s notice to keep the school day going, to keep your child moving forward, and to make learning more fun for both student and teacher. A learning profile can include: academic skills, cognitive skills, communication needs, motor abilities, social-emotional development, sensory preferences, personality traits, love language, learning style, and multiple intelligences.
Stephanie Buckwalter is a veteran homeschool mom of over twenty years with five children who have a variety of learning profiles, including gifted, mild learning struggles, and nonverbal with moderate intellectual disability. To improve outcomes for her diverse learners, she combined her knowledge of various homeschooling methods with training and research in neurological development and right-brain teaching methods. Her innovations include Visual Phonograms, the Three E Method, and Spell As U Go, a spelling and communication program for nonverbal students. Stephanie has a BA in literary studies and has written books for the school library market, encyclopedia entries, and now publishes homeschool curriculum and resources at Adapted Home Education. She is an educational consultant specializing in students who don’t read, write, speak or do math, and those stuck perpetually in elementary school.
