Online Homeschooling Resources – California Homeschool Network

Balametrics: www.balametrics.com, 800-894-3187
This company develops and manufactures products that address many brain processing based learning disabilities like ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia, Auditory Processing Disorder, Poor Reading, and Poor academic performance.

Carol E. Aines, Learning Specialist: Bista Educational Assessment, Livermore area, 925-447-1390

CMspecialkids
For those using Charlotte Mason homeschooling methods for special needs children. This list is for the sharing of information related to adapting CM for special needs and for sharing the unique challenges and joys of everyday life with our kids, for support, encouragement and prayer. Subscribe: CMspecialkids-subscribe@Wyahoogroups.com

Home Schooling Children with Special Needs by Sharon Hensley

How to Get Your Child Off the Refrigerator and On to Learning by Carol Barnier

Speech & Motion: Joqueta Hayes, Newport Beach, CA, joqueta@speechandmotion.com, www.speechandmotion.com
A speech and language pathologist who is homeschool-friendly

Speech & Language Therapy: www.languagetolearning.com

Special need tutoring service: www.edtothefuture.com – Located in the Carlsbad area and fluent in Spanish.

Taylor Made Science: www.taylormadescience.com

Thriving in Trade School with a Disability, http://www.accreditedschoolsonline.org/vocational-trade-school/people-with-disabilities/

Social skills for adolescents and adults with autism, http://www.autism.org.uk/socialskills

Spelling & Vocabulary

Common Sense Spelling Book by Teresa Walker and T.W. Butcher

English from the Roots Up by Joegil Lundquist

Mikie Metric Productions: www.say-it-in-english.com

Making Words: Multilevel, Hands-On Developmentally Appropriate Spelling and Phonics Activities by Patricia M. Cunningham, Dorothy P. Hall

Spelling Practice: http://owlpizza.com/

Vocabulary from Classical Roots: Fifer and Flowers

Word Pash: www.wordpash.com

Teens

Admission to UC Riverside for homeschooled or other nontraditionally educated students: my.UCR.edu

The California Proficiency Testing (CHSPE): www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sp/
The California High School Proficiency Examination (CHSPE) assesses proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills. The test is given in English only. You may take the CHSPE only if you meet one of the following requirements on the test date: You are at least 16 years old, or you have completed at least one academic year of the tenth grade, or You are enrolled in the second semester of tenth grade. The CHSPE is administered twice a year, in April and November. If you pass the CHSPE, you are given a Certificate of Proficiency by the California State Board of Education that is considered equivalent to a high school.

CHSPE Test Preparation Materials Barrons: http://barronseduc.stores.yahoo.net/0764136968.html

DMV Driving Videos: http://www.youtube.com/Californiadmv
The DMV has posted 78 driving videos on You Tube. The videos range in topics from vehicle maintenance to the top ten reasons teens fail the driving test.

The GED: www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/gd/
A GED credential documents that you have high school-level academic skills. You may take the GED Tests if: You are not enrolled in high school, and you have not graduated from high school, and are 18 years of age or older. In order to pass the GED exam, you have to be able to read, compute, interpret information, and express yourself in writing on a level comparable to that of 60 percent of graduating high school seniors.

Homeschool Transcript Resources:

Kaplan Test Preparation: www.kaptest.com

National Association for College Admission Counseling (lists college fairs under events): http://test.nacacnet.org/MemberPortal/

Online GED Preparation Resources: www.gedonline.org

Teens /Online classes: www.ClassXoom.com