In this encouraging episode, host Janice Campbell talks with Kathy Kuhl, author of Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner, about how to help children who find learning harder than it should be. Kathy shares her personal journey homeschooling a child with learning challenges and offers practical insight for parents teaching kids who struggle with reading, writing, or attention. Together, Janice and Kathy discuss individualized learning, the importance of literature, balancing remediation with accommodation, and nurturing a child's strengths and confidence. Whether you're new to homeschooling or looking for ways to better support your student, this conversation is full of wisdom, compassion, and hope.

About Kathy

Kathy Kuhl helps parents teaching children and teens with learning challenges. She provides resources, tips, and encouragement. Whether your children struggle with reading, writing, math, or focusing, Kathy offers creative solutions to help you teach more effectively.

After years helping her dyslexic, distractible son after school, Kathy began homeschooling him in fourth grade. Homeschooling let her customize education to his interests and strengths, while addressing his weaknesses. The results made his neuropsychologist declare that homeschooling was the best thing for him. Other parents began seeking Kathy's advice, and she began speaking.

After her son's homeschool graduation, Kathy interviewed 64 parents who also homeschooled students with diagnosed learning disabilities. From those interviews, her experience and study, Kathy wrote Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner. This handbook helps parents or anyone helping children or teens with learning challenges, including attention issues, dyslexia, other learning disabilities, autism, and giftedness.

Kathy also wrote Staying Sane as You Homeschool and Encouraging Your Child, as well as articles for many magazines. She blogs at LearnDifferently.com.

Kathy speaks at homeschool and education conferences internationally. She also advises families individually, providing advice, encouragement, and insight. You may sign up for a free introductory session on her website, with no obligation.

Kathy graduated from William and Mary, where she earned teaching certificates in English and mathematics. She has two children and four grandchildren. She lives with her husband in northern Virginia, and loves reading and hiking.

About Janice

Janice Campbell, a lifelong reader and writer, loves to introduce students to great books and beautiful writing. She holds an English degree from Mary Baldwin College, and is the graduated homeschool mom of four sons. You'll find more about reading, writing, planning, and education from a Charlotte Mason/Classical perspective at her websites, EverydayEducation.com, Excellence-in-Literature.com, and DoingWhatMatters.com.

Resources

The Toothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill

Hugh Pine trilogy by Janwillem Van De Wetering

Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

Mother Goose

The Penderwicks series by Jeanne Birdsall

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

Professor Carol's Hurrah and Hallelujah!

Chronicles of Narnia, by C. S. Lewis; especially The Last Battle

The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis

Janice Campbell's review of Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner

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