Sandy Cook M.S. Instructional Design
Sandy Cook Quick Facts
Main Areas:Homeschooling students with Learning DisabilitiesCareer Focus:Author and Consultant
Sandy is the homeschooling mom of two boys who never intended to homeschool her children. However, after five years in public school it became evident that something had to change educationally for her boys, so Sandy reluctantly became homeschooler. The surprising adventure began, which ultimately transformed the educational outcomes for Sandy's boys dramatically and enabled her boys to graduate from high school ranked as college Sophomores, wherein her boys received scholarships for college.
Sandy provides how-to information, encouragement, and training for parents. She focuses on helping parents so the parents can help their child(ren) overcome specific learning disabilities through homeschooling. Sandy's qualifications include:
- Master’s Degree, Instructional Design and Technology, Summa Cum Laude 4.0 GPA;
- Orton-Gillingham Multisensory training (for teaching students with dyslexia how to read);
- Georgia Advocacy Office’s Parent Leadership Support Project Advocacy training;
- Georgia Charter School Association’s “Organization and Concept Development” Training;
- Petitioner for American Sign Language for Georgia Students ;
- Lifetime Member of Phi Kappa Phi Academic Honor Society;
- Member of Parent Educator’s Association for Children at Home;
- Member of Hall County Home Educators;
- Webmaster for LearningAbledKids.com ;
- Instructional Designer;
- and Educational Change Advocate.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Sandy Cook
Every child deserves a viable education, and homeschooling is an ideal way to provide the precise educational program needed by a child.
Getting Started With Sandy Cook
If your child has a learning disability and is struggling in school, don't let battles with the public school or your own doubts about homeschooling stop you from taking control of your child's education. Your child needs you! We wasted valuable time trying to force our school to educate our child properly, and we were terrified of homeschooling. If I knew THEN what I know now.. I'd not waste another minute of my child's precious educational time. If you're unsure about homeschooling at all, find out what homeschooling a child with learning disabilities is really like--Will you have enough patience? Do you know enough to teach your child? Will your child have a social life? and all of those other burning questions parents have in their heads prior to homeschooling. Please read: " Overcome Your Fear of Homeschooling with Insider Information
" to gain a clear understanding of the pros and cons of homeschooling a child with specific learning disabilities.
Even before you've decided you should homeschool, you can begin meeting your child's specific learning needs through two vital initial steps: 1) You need to identify exactly what your child needs and 2) identify his individual learning style. These two components are essential for enabling your child to learn, whether he remains in traditional school or you decide to homeschool. Get started with figuring out how to meet your child's individual learning needs by reading this article: http://learningabledkids.com/ignite-educational-progress
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