How would /lit/ homeschool a child?

[Anonymous No.17201631]

I'm building a curriculum for my little brother with autism since my family took him out of school altogether. What do you guys suggest?

So far everyday it's:
-1 chapter of How to Read a Book
-1 chapter of On Writing Well
-1 chapter of The Hobbit and writing summaries of what happened
-1 hour of math on Khan Academy
-1 hour of Chess

[Anonymous No.17201644]

>>17201631
how old is he?

[Anonymous No.17201663]

It must run in the family

[Anonymous No.17201669]

>>17201644
16, but the autism/learning disability set him back a lot.

[Anonymous No.17201681]

make him read finnegans wake

[Anonymous No.17201686]

>>17201631
Autism is too broad to know how to help you. He could have a range of difficulties, and something that could be helpful for one might be useless in another. I presume he can read, but like >>17201644 says, age range is also a factor which would affect his ability.

[Anonymous No.17201706]

>>17201686
That's all he's diagnosed for so not sure how to get more specific. I'm just trying to cover all the fundamentals I would want to learn as a kid

[Anonymous No.17201712]

>>17201631
nice pic

[Anonymous No.17201730]

>>17201631
At age five I put Ulysses in front of them. If they haven't finished it in three days off of Mount Taygetus they go

[Anonymous No.17201743]

>>17201631
Definitely not with Whitehead, garbage theology came out of that. All the theology they need is going to be coming from reading Heidegger's black notebooks

[Anonymous No.17201749]

>>17201631
Maybe I misunderstood the post. Your brother was taken out of school and you're trying to give him autism?

[Anonymous No.17201743,1]

>>17201631
KA is only good for computations
if you want to get him very good at math, do Gelfand + AOPS

[Anonymous No.17201776]

>>17201631
i wouldnt use books like 'how to read a book' at his stage
give him some simple classics that you think he will enjoy so he can get into reading without feeling so presured by it,
with writing, give him some simple grammer , spelling tasks each week making sure to challange him, set him some tasks to write things that have happened in his day and give him encouraging critiqes on how to improve his writing to better detail his events.
giving him assesments on the book he reads eg what he thinks the meaning of certain chapters character motivations ect,
dont do things like chess unless he actually enjoys it. maybe some other games similar

[Anonymous No.17201785]

>>17201776
ignore my poor grammer btw.

[Anonymous No.17201796]

>>17201776
This, unironically get him Loeb Classical Library
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[Anonymous No.17201816]

>>17201706
>so not sure how to get more specific.
Can he walk unassisted? Can he talk? Can he read? Can he hold a pencil? Can he write letters? Is he over responsive or under responsive and in what contexts? You've been living with him. Anon can't tell whether he has the kind of autism that means he's only socially awkward or the kind of autism that means he needs to be fed through a tube.

[Anonymous No.17201910]

>>17201776
solid advice, that's why I threw in The Hobbit. Not sure he likes it, might try others in pic related.
>set him some tasks to write things that have happened in his day and give him encouraging critiqes on how to improve his writing to better detail his events.
very solid, will try.
>>17201816
He can do all that but it's like middle of the road autism. Probably can't work most jobs, and at school he was always in special ed.

[Anonymous No.17201924]

>>17201631
Make him read Prometheus Rising

[Anonymous No.17201941]

>>17201924
hmm great suggestion!

[Anonymous No.17202010]

Quran

[Anonymous No.17202038]

Shouldn't he be studying shit that would help him get into an university or get a job or something

[Anonymous No.17202046]

>>17201631
homeschooling is child abuse. shame on you!

[Anonymous No.17202074]

>>17201910
>it's like middle of the road autism
This is again not going to help work out what kind of schooling he needs, or what difficulties he has or where he might regress.

[Anonymous No.17202108]

>>17202046
Public school is child abuse

[Anonymous No.17202146]

>>17202038
like what?
>>17202046
every school is closed here lol not sure if joking
>>17202074
Not sure how to tailor specifically to him, but my family's hired specialists and doesn't seem they helped much. My approach is just cover the basics and let him spend the rest of the day on his interests, like animating
>>17202108
true. I hated school. Got my GED the day i turned 16, then got my bachelors in computer engineering. Almost every class was either online or in a small classroom, didn't waste time.

[Anonymous No.17202164]

>>17202146
>my family's hired specialists and doesn't seem they helped much.
What kind of specialists? He might need some of them to stop regression or to get him to basic competence in a task. It could well be about maintaining rather than improving.

[Anonymous No.17202189]

>>17202074
>>17202164
OP's bro prob has meme autism. That's why he doesn't know if he needs therapies or for what.

[Anonymous No.17202202]

>>17202164
speech therapists, behavior therapists, and people that specialize working with helping autistic children. They probably did help. I guess you're right, we should get them back into the mix.

[Anonymous No.17202403]

>>17202202
You should at least get their notes and treatment plan, so you can see where he has difficulty and what helps. There is too broad a range of difficulties he could have for us to know off the bat what he has trouble with. It could be he would have problems with understanding what "off the bat" or other metaphors mean, or it could be that he has difficulty transitioning from one task to another, or it could be neither of those things and he has difficulty somewhere else. Without knowing what exactly he can and can't manage, it's really hard to know what would count as a solution.
>>17202189
>meme autism
I know what you mean but I also thought of those anons with immense frog catalogs.

[Anonymous No.17202492]

>>17202403
>I know what you mean but I also thought of those anons with immense frog catalogs.
105 images is not "immense"

[Anonymous No.17202509]

>>17202492
It's on the low side if anything.

[Anonymous No.17203983]

>>17201631
Add foundational mathematics, since KA doesn't cover it I think