Teaching a Child with Intellectual Disability
A diagnosis of intellectual disability often brings with it a host of other learning issues. Not only do you have to move slower, teach differently and build thinking skills, you often have to deal with sensory dysregulation, motor planning deficits, communication issues, and big emotions. That’s a lot of things to juggle! This workshop shows you how to use a two-pronged approach to educate your child. You’ll learn how to remediate the 3 Rs while moving ahead with age-appropriate concepts to build a foundation of knowledge needed in adulthood. You’ll learn specific techniques to make learning engaging and meaningful where you get to nurture confidence, build lasting skill development and celebrate small successes along the way.
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.
