These links compiled by Meredith Warshaw from her Uniquely Gifted website of online resources for families with gifted/special needs children.

Many of us have found that the best way to meet the needs of our twice-special children is to do it ourselves. Homeschooling can be a wonderful way to meet both the gifted needs and other special needs of our children.

• A to Z Home's Cool Special Needs Legal Advocacy page has a large list of links to sites related to understanding your legal rights when homeschooling a special needs child. http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/weblinks/specialneedslegal.htm

• Positively ADD - Parenting and Unschooling is a site with interesting information and lots of links. http://www.mindspring.com/~jupton/jan1.html

• About.com's Special Education site has an article about homeschooling at http://specialed.about.com/library/weekly/aa080201a.htm. About.com's Homeschooling site has a section on homeschooling special needschildren at http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/specialchallenges/index.htm

• Homeschooling LD/ADD Children: Great Idea or Big Mistake?" by Suzanne H. Stevens http://www.ldonline.org/article/5917

• Homeschooling Gifted Students: An Introductory Guide for Parents" by Jacque Ensign http://www.resourceroom.net/homeschool/ERIChomeschool.asp

Online Support Groups

• Homeschooling: GT-Spec-Home is a new list for families homeschooling gifted/special needs children. To learn more about the list, visit to learn more about the list,visit http://www.gtworld.org. To subscribe to GT-Spec-Home, send e-mail to listserv@listserv.icors.org with the command "subscribe gt-spec-home" in the body.

• LD Online has a bulletin board for homeschooling special needs children at http://www.ldonline.org/bulletin_boards/index.html

• Homeschooling Kids with Disabilities is another online homeschooling support group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hkwd

Additional Resources

• Federation for Children with Special Needs, http://www.fcsn.org/. From their website: "The Federation is a center for parents and parent organizations to work together on behalf of children with special needs and their families. We can help! Organized in 1975 as a coalition of parent groups representing children with a variety of disabilities, the Federation operates a Parent Center in Massachusetts which offers a variety of services to parents, parent groups, and others who are concerned with children with special needs."

• Americans With Disabilities Act, http://www2.ed.gov/policy/rights/guid/ocr/disability.html, provides an overview of laws, and questions and answers related to disability discrimination.