Category Archives: Learning Disabilities

New Book Announcement – English Spelling Patterns

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I wrote this first for my grandsons. I have never seen spelling taught in an organized, sensible fashion. Well, except once: my friend was teaching her preschooler at home and started with cat, rat, bat. So sensible. Never done.

Later, I discovered that many students could not intuit the rules like I could. Give me a word and I normally can guess how it is spelled. Many can not do that. So why not teach them the rules? I discovered that the Orton-Gillingham Method for teaching students with dyslexia does this, at least to some extent. So it was not until I was grown, with all my education, many degrees, and had a daughter in junior high and in a program for remediating Dyslexia, that I heard “when 2 vowels go walking, the first one does the talking, and says its name.”

I also realized that all Montessori teachers will need this, since all they have is the basic “what you see is what you get” from Montessori, who spoke Italian — a wysiwyg language.

Then I discovered that some very well educated ESL students appreciated the work. So now it is available on Amazon and Kindle for everyone.

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Help for Special Needs Students Who are Homeschooled

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https://www.thsc.org/2017/05/encouragement-special-needs-homeschool-families-isolated/

You may remember the interview that Mr. Lambert gave us about the legal situation for homeschoolers in Texas. The Texas Homeschool Coalition that he and his wife founded does more than merely represent homeschooling families legally. They also have many other supports.

This article examines the plight of families with special needs children. Often these children must be home educated precisely because their families feel that the public school does not offer appropriate education. However, they are at greater risk of being targeted by state authorities. The parents, themselves, may need greater support because of the tremendous difficulty of rearing and educating their children. Yet, in order to keep them safe and to offer the best hope of getting an appropriate education, they often must isolate themselves. A homeschooling support group is the answer. Hear how others have triumphed.

The Great Shalom salutes all such parents who go out of their way to see that their children get what they need. Pollution, broken homes, poverty, and a failing school system make the burdens not only worse, but much more common. We salute the brave parents who do what it takes to see their children successful. It is this sort of parent that the Great Shalom was formed to support, encourage, and equip.

Secret of Montessori’s Christian Roots Revealed

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Many people know of the Montessori Method’s outstanding results in higher academics. For 125 years they have outperformed every other method of education, especially in the preschool and primary years. What has been suppressed, however, has been the Method’s Christian roots. Barbara Fidellow, co-founder with her husband Edward Fidellow, of the Christian Montessori Fellowship shows how Dr. Montessori began the method.

The Fidellows began their journey with the Montessori Method when, as evangelical Espiscopalians in Dallas, they started a school at the request of their church. Then, for many years, they ran a school in Dallas. During this time they founded the Christian Montessori Fellowship and Cross Mountain Press. Now they run a school in El Salvador and are founding a teachers’ college.

The Montessori Method has helped many children become great students and leaders in their field. Better education through the Method is now helping families who are working in a factory in El Salvador where the owners are sponsoring a school for their employees’ children. The teachers’ college will promote more development wherever these teachers, directors, and school owners live. The character taught be be an even greater foundation than the academic foundations.

Please hear and share what Barbara Fidellow has to say! Whether you are a mother looking to expand your service to your own children, a leader in your church looking for the best mission, or an educator looking for fresh but tested ideas, our short series on the Montessori Method will be sure to equip you.

www.crossmountainpress.com
Cross Mountain Press provides educational materials for educators and parents …

www.christianmontessorifellowship.com
This is the only Christian Montessori association I know of. Christian Montessorians will want to join. Available here are some articles anyone may wish to read. Annual international conference held in January in San Antonio is announced here.

Texas Government Ignores Law, Abuses Family

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The news is out, just today, that the Tutt family case has a sad ending. 1) CPS worker illegally and without evidence targeted a home school family, and 2) a lower level judge again without evidence, removed children from their fit parents and 3) the state intentionally delayed beyond legal limits and 4) children were randomly removed and only some of them returned and 5) the adoption of one of 3 siblings being delayed so as to block it and 6) the Texas Supreme Court unaccountably took no action on this case that had already proven to be illegal and certainly beyond wild imagination.

We will continue to pray for the traumatized Tutt family in Dallas county. The THSC will seek prevention of future abuses at the state legislature. All of us are on notice that freedom comes with the price of vigilance. Be sure to vet all candidates, including judicial ones, when you vote.

This news comes amazingly on the very day I had planned to air the interview with Tim Lambert, a lawyer and a co-founder of the Texas Home School Coalition. God must be taking a special interest in this matter.

Please notice that March 9 and April the 3rd are THSC capitol days. This is a great day to show up at the capitol, and exercise your rights and have a great civics lesson. Notice also THSC convention in Arlington/Dallas May 11-13 and The Woodlands July 20-22.

GSB is soon to have our own homeschool event. This is a pamper day and a group support day for home educating moms. March 31 and April 1 in San Antonio, at the historic Menger Hotel (across from the Alamo) Conference only $100. Room on your own. P.O. Box 971 Cedar Park, Texas 78630. Don’t miss out on this pamper time!

Also, send for our forthcoming binder that will help you start your homeschooling right AND be sure you cover all your child’s needs. DO NOT merely re-create a poor public school academic only education. Address all of your child’s special needs, character needs, and spiritual needs. Oh, and have fun and take the stress off! All in one packet. $300.00

Or private, confidential consulting available. (in person or by phone) Also scientific assessments available (only in person in Austin.) Email me for more info: info@greatshalom.org