Welcome back to HOD! And welcome to the boards
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I know there are others here using HOD with their special needs children, from autism to DS and all sorts of other needs. They'll chime in I know, when they see your thread!
I don't have a child with DS but have used multiple guides including times I had two kids with sensory processing disorder in the midst of sensory insanity...the oldest for sure and she's been interesting to say the least, then my youngest. We learned about his SPD and delays bc he absolutely doesn't sleep and I needed answers! That was a year ago... Or more and still not sleeping. Lol. Anyway, we were running 2-3 guides, plus the newborn and toddler and then the newborn became the sleepless tot and he and DD were getting at least ten hits of therapy a week between the two of them. We somehow managed to still get school done many days, sometimes not. But 2-3 guides wasn't a huge ordeal and had I been getting any sleep at all at that time likely would have been totally easy to run multiple guides mostly in track. I did stop altogether somewhere in the midst of the worst part and dealing with PPD (which was likely actually issues from my newly diagnosed health conditions). We had to slow down, do school when we could, and I had to remember its okay to just get the basics in sometimes and that the little ones didn't have to have as much school as the big one, so of all I did was a little phones and some math most of the time...it really was okay to allow myself that grace. When things settled, running multiple guides was a breeze. You can do it and many moms here do! I have some sample schedules on my blog showing how we ran the three levels and cared for a baby too. The links to see them are in my right sidebar in the blue box on top.
www.ThomasSchoolDays.blogspot
Maybe that will give you an idea of what a day full of HOD looks like (and it's not that full!) and there's also a thread on here at top of the boards titled Let's share our schedules (I think that's right) and that's really helpful!!
I'm phone typing so forgive any autocorrect funnies, rudeness, or confusion!
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