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.

• The National Home Education Network (NHEN) has a section for special needs. NHEN is also a good place to find local support groups. http://www.nhen.org/support/groups/browse.asp will help you search by statefor local support groups. http://www.nhen.org/leginfo/state_list.html provides legal information bystate. http://www.nhen.org is the main site.

• One good starting point for information is the homeschooling section of the Resource Room: http://www.resourceroom.net/homeschool/

• The Aut-2B-Home site is for families homeschooling children with autistic-spectrum disorders (both high and low functioning).http://home.earthlink.net/~tammyglaser798/authome.html

• 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

• The Homeschool Zone has the article "Ten Steps to Successfully Homeschooling Children with Special Needs" by Janie Bowman http://www.homeschoolzone.com/hsz/bowman2.htm

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.

• NHEN has a listing of support groups and email lists on its webpage for special needs

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

• Aut-2B-Home has an email list for families homeschooling children with autism-spectrum disorders, plus links to other homeschooling lists http://home.earthlink.net/~tammyglaser798/authome.html#sup

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