First of all – Happy Mother’s Day! How lucky am I having more than one Mother’s Day in a year?! Half of our Italian family celebrates today. The other half will rejoice in two weeks again! Homeschooling! I wonder how are you doing? How do you feel and what is your state of mind? How… Read More HOME(or)SCHOOLING – Balancing, Bonding, Not Losing It
Watching educational videos about some curious topics. Playing with bare hands in a muddy paddle for hours. Asking for an audiobook during a long and boring car trip. Listening to the sound of browsing through book pages in a dark room. Repeating difficult words while jumping all around the place. There is no wrong way… Read More Understanding Your Child’s Cognitive Style
What is an individualized learning process? The individualization of the learning process is not one-to-one individual teaching. This means adapting the teaching to the individual characteristics of students – their rhythm of acquiring knowledge, language skills, preferred methods, and cognitive predispositions. Individualization means ‘when‘. The academic goals are equal for all in the class, but… Read More The Individualization of a Learning Process
How do you see your ideal travel companion through education? What should a modern teacher be like? How would you like him to be? With passion and fortitude – the ingredients that today’s teacher we, as a family on the spectrum, would like to have and are joyful if we are lucky enough to meet… Read More A Travel Companion Through Life Learning Ocean
Forget about it! We have to wait. Not a good time. Hold your horses! Forget about it! Better not! Not gonna happen! Oh, come on! What they will tell about me!? I’m not sure we should risk. How many times you hesitated because it’s ‘better not’? Have you ever resigned to take part in some… Read More 6 Things Parents of Children with Autism Are Anxious About (and they shouldn’t)
We tried numerous approaches. We tested lots of educational games and toys. The hard truth is…it’s not easy to learn times tables for kids. Especially for kids on the spectrum. Why? Kids with autism have short term memory problem. They have a serious difficulty to remember things like to answer a question of what was… Read More Crack the Code – Times Tables
We notice quite early that reading would be one of the trickiest school skills to deal with in case of our Firstborn. He was always extremely interested in books, he loves to sit and hear someone reading. He adores picture books. He stops often and for a long time thoroughly analyzes every picture, every illustration,… Read More An Audio Gadget That Helps in Effective Reading Learning
While the summer holidays are just around the corner, probably a lot of parents already thinking about educational games and fun learning activities that are handy and useful to be used during no-school weeks and ideal to bring with while traveling with the whole family. Preparing your luggage and being savvy enough to bring only… Read More 5 Best eLearning Platforms We Found Helpful for Special Education Needs