Useful Technology in Homeschooling Special Needs High Schoolers

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Homeschooling with Technology

Meryl van der Merwe

300 episodes

1 week ago

The Homeschooling with Technology Podcast is a weekly show, hosted by Meryl van der Merwe, where she shares ideas on how to use technology to be more productive as a homeschool parent and on how to use technology to make lessons more engaging. In addition, she covers techie skills your children need to learn and how to easily incorporate them into your homeschooling. Meryl homeschooled her 4 children after working as a computer programmer for many years. She uses technology whenever she can when teaching both live co-op classes and online classes for homeschoolers. In this podcast, she shares all the best tech resources she finds with you.

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Useful Technology in Homeschooling Special Needs High Schoolers

Homeschooling with Technology

12 minutes 14 seconds

4 months ago

Useful Technology in Homeschooling Special Needs High Schoolers

328: Useful Technology in Homeschooling Special Needs High Schoolers with Melody Durham
In this episode, Meryl chats with homeschool mom, Melody Durham, who shares the tech tools that have helped her dyslexic high schooler succeed. From smart pens to speech-to-text software, Melody explains what’s worked, why it’s made a difference, and how to advocate for your student in homeschool and classroom settings.
Topics Covered:

Why Melody began homeschooling her daughter with dyslexia

Tools recommended by the Yale Center for Dyslexia

Dictation tools: Microsoft Word vs Google Docs, and the importance of a good microphone

Audiobooks: Chirp Books (budget-friendly) and Bookshare (free for qualified students)

Built-in screen readers in Chrome and Edge for reading online articles aloud

Tips for working with co-op or online teachers and advocating for needed accommodations

Mentioned Resources:

Yale Center for Dyslexia’s Technology Recommendations
LiveScribe Pen
Good quality microphone
Microsoft Surface using OneNote
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Chirp Books
Bookshare
Screen readers (built into Chrome and Edge)

Parents: Don’t forget to communicate your student’s learning needs with co-op or online class teachers—they’re often more than willing to help!

Take a look at show sponsor, FundaFunda Academy to see what they offer for online classes and web-based unit studies.
Join our Facebook Group especially for the listeners of this podcast! You can ask questions and get advice as you try integrating technology in your homeschool.
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