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I really need help
Thu, 03/29/2007 - 12:43Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Youth
Hi!
My 12 yr old started having seizures again. She has been seizure free for 2 months.She does not have a lot of gran mal seizures when she does have them, but this past Tuesday she had 2 with an hour, and 2 on Wednesday morning. She also had one gran mal today, and an absense one.
She has missed school both days. She is in the 5th grade. She struggles every day with school work. My husband and I started talking about homeschooling her, but I really can't afford to do this. Does anyone out there have any advice on this subject? Is there something out there that helps families like mine?
Thanks!
Re: I really need help
Submitted by comomx3 on Wed, 2007-04-11 - 23:45
MindyRoy- My 9 year old has seizures also and we did decide to homeschool. Socialization is NOT a problem. She has friends and many activities. Homeschooling has been the answer for us. We actually use COVA. Which is a public school. All of the curriculum is FREE and it is wonderful curriculum. This morning Emily woke up around 8 and because she had a bad night- went back to bed around 10:30 and slept for 2 hours. She got up- did 3 hours of school. Since it's one on one instruction we get SOOO much done. She scored in the top 90 percent for math. Reading is difficult for her for a number of reasons but honestly- if she had stayed in school I'm sure she would be behind on ALL of her subjects. There will be many nay-sayers to homeschool just because they DO NOT understand what it is. There are many families who home school for many different reasons. My daughter needs to have the flexibility in her schedule to sleep if she needs to and have the one on one instruction. I am thankful that we have the option. Check out COVCS.org and see what it's like. There may be a virtual school in your state. Good luck to you.