Down syndrome and Schooling – Part 3

Something you may consider or may already want to do is to home school your Down syndrome child. There are many benefits to home school for children with and without special needs. Home schooling your Down syndrome child may be best for you because in this type of school you’ll have a one on one studying for your child. You alone will be teaching him or her instead of a teacher that also has 19 other students to think about.

A home schooled Down syndrome child will be able to learn at his or her pace instead of one set by a school board. Children that are home schooled have one great benefit over other schooled children, and that is a benefit of better health. When you have 20 students running around in one room they’re going to end up sharing germs. In a home school setting you’ll be avoiding that completely, ending up with a child who isn’t catching colds from her or his fellow classmates.

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Down syndrome and Schooling – Part 2

Before starting to look for schools children with Down syndrome, make sure you know what you’re looking for. You may want a program that’s one on one, you may want an at home program, and you may want to immerse them into public school. Make sure that you and your child are getting what you both need and desire from their education.

While some schools may have programs that a Down syndrome child can go through, most Kindergartens are geared toward children without handicap; therefore you may want to find schools that have specific programs for children with Down syndrome.

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Down syndrome and Schooling – Part 1

If you have a child with Down syndrome and they’re becoming school aged you’re going to have to start thinking about how to put together Down syndrome and Kindergarten. Since children with Down syndrome tend to have lower cognitive abilities than others their age, schooling is a different process.

Children with Down syndrome that have reached Kindergarten age are going to be taught things that are usually geared for a pre-school class. Down syndrome children from the age of five to eight are going to be taught things like: how to help themselves, simple addition, telling time by the hour, and reading simple sentences.

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Alfie Hardie Testimony - Epileptic Seizures – Part 3

Best of all was how they looked at Alfie when they got there at first. When Emma and Fraser tried to get Alfie medical help they would ask about seizures and try to cure that, and just that. When they got to The Family Hope Center they sat down with Alfie and asked about every part of him: his seizures, sight, hearing, and over all behavior. They then based their program and treatment off of the whole of Alfie instead of just his seizures.

Early on at The Family Hope Center, Emma and Fraser were given something that the medical community couldn’t provide and that was hope. They were comforted by the center because they were given a direction and structure. They were given a certain amount of confidence and felt there was a future when previously they didn’t think there was one.

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Alfie Hardie Testimony - Epileptic Seizures – Part 2

Alfie was having 10 – 12 seizures a day with his parents always having to be around him to make sure that he was not hurt. He would seize day and night, so he had 24 hour supervision. He would get exhausted from all the seizing that happened throughout the day so he slept a lot. His sleep patterns were not right; he would sleep frequently during the day and be awake a lot at night. Alfie was very closed off and difficult to communicate with and would shut out the world; he was hard to spend time with.

They went to a Family Hope Center seminar in Oxford. They were skeptical about it, but after hearing what was said they were very impressed. They decided to give it a try.
In the two years that he had been at The Family Hope Center they’d seen great amounts of progress. Alfie was no longer having seizures. They can now leave him for short amounts of time with out worrying that he’s going to hurt himself. His sleep pattern had balanced out; he is sleeping more at night instead of the day.

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Alfie Hardie Testimony - Epileptic Seizures – Part 1

Another client who traveled overseas to come to The Family Hope Center, was Alfie Hardie with his parents Emma and Fraser Hardie of England. Alfie was growing up normally until he was about two years old. He started having mild seizures that just got worse. He was diagnosed with Epilepsy.

The medical field tried all the kinds of medicine for seizures and none of them worked, some of them made him worse. They were told there was no hope for his future and that he wouldn’t progress he would only regress (something they’d already seen him do from two years old to three).

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Simone Risager Testimony - Cerebral Palsy – Part 2

When they started the program Simone wasn’t able to see anything farther than a foot away from her face. Now she can see her mom or dad walking across the room. How much detail she can ascertain is uncertain, but she can pinpoint on an object for a good amount of time. They’re not getting much feedback from Simone, but they think that there’s a lot more understanding than there used to be. Her big sister is having an easier time of playing with her because of the baby talk, laughing, and participation that has started since treatment.

The Simone Risager Testimony reveals that she was having big seizures and would have periods of time they would call “bad time” where Simone wasn’t doing well. According to Jane her long periods of time are already gone after six months of treatment and they aren’t nearly as bad as they used to be. Jane said that Simone is a very happy girl.

Simone wouldn’t sleep at all during the day and now she’s sleeping a little during they day. She’s also sleeping better at night. Simone still had problems with her breathing and also had bowl movement problems. She’s doing much better with the breathing and is having an easier time with her bowl movements. Jane says her allover health is a lot better.

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