If your child is struggling, there is a clear path forward
Many parents turn to homeschooling after realizing that traditional classrooms aren’t meeting their child’s needs. But they lack confidence because they don’t know how to homeschool, how to get started or what to do to meet their child’s specific needs.
If your child is struggling with reading, focus, comprehension, or learning in general, you’re not alone—and more importantly, there is a way to help them succeed. But then comes the next question:
“Where do I even start?”
The truth is, overcoming learning challenges like dyslexia, ADHD, and processing difficulties isn’t about finding the perfect curriculum. It’s about understanding how your child learns—and building everything around that.
That’s exactly why I developed the R.E.A.D. Protocol™ for Overcoming Dyslexia—it’s a step-by-step approach to help you identify what’s holding your child back and create a personalized plan that actually works.
✔️ What You’ll Learn on This Page
- For starters: How to Homeschool WELL.
- How to identify what’s really causing your child’s learning struggles.
- The correct order to address learning challenges.
- A step-by-step system to build a personalized homeschool plan.
- Where to go next based on your child’s needs.
🧩 Why Many Typical Homeschooling Approaches Don’t Work
Most homeschooling struggles don’t come from lack of effort. They come from using methods that don’t match how a child’s brain works.
Before choosing curriculum or programs, you need clarity on:
- What’s actually causing your child’s struggles?
- How does your child process information?
- Which skills need to be strengthened first so your child can succeed?
Without that, even the “best” homeschooling programs can fail.
🧠 The R.E.A.D. Protocol™ for Overcoming Dyslexia
This framework is designed to help you move from confusion to clarity—and from frustration to progress. It is the basic framework for how to homeschool WELL, so that your child can succeed in learning and in life!
R — Recognize & Research
Identify all potential learning barriers to learning your child has—not just the academic ones.
Look at:
- Physical barriers: vision problems, auditory issues, sensory sensitivities
- Neurological factors: memory, attention, processing speed, executive functioning
- Basic academic skills: reading, spelling, writing, math
- Advanced skills: comprehension, written expression, problem-solving
👉 Why this matters: You can’t fix what you haven’t clearly identified.
Even if you figure out how to homeschool like everyone else, you won’t necessarily find success if you don’t meet your child’s actual needs!
E — Evaluate the Learner
You have to go beyond guesswork—You have to objectively determine how your child learns.
This may include:
- Neuropsychological or educational evaluations
- Learning style (VAKT: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile)
- Multiple intelligences
- Environmental learning preferences
👉 Why this matters: This step reveals your child’s strengths, which are the key to unlocking progress.
Knowing your child’s learning styles is a huge key in how to homeschool and find actual success. If you teach your child the way your child actually likes to learn, learning becomes easier!
🔗 Helpful next step: Identify Your Child’s Learning Style
A — Analyze the Data
Turn all of the information you have about your chld’s learning needs into a clear, strategic plan.
One of the most important principles:
You must address challenges in the right order:
- Physical barriers to learning
- Neurological processing challenges
- Basic academic skills
- Advanced academic skills
👉 Why this matters: Many children struggle longer than necessary because interventions start at the wrong level. If there are physical barriers, in particular, they will interfere with everything else.
If your child has a slow processing speed, for example, you have to slow down the teaching so that your child can process what they’re learning into their memory. You can also work on increasing your child’s processing speed because of neuroplasticity!
If you teach a child too fast or too slow, the child is much more likely to zone out, and then it requires re-teaching for an issue the child absolutely cannot help! This aspect of how to homeschool is one of those things that can’t be provided in a public school classroom because it’s impossible for a teacher to teach every child at their needed pace.
D — Design a Personalized Learning Plan
Now you can build a homeschooling plan that actually fits your child because you understand their needs.
This includes:
- Choosing curriculum that matches how your child learns best
- Selecting therapies or supports wherever they’re needed
- Avoiding programs that conflict with your child’s learning style
- Creating a flexible, responsive homeschool structure that meets your child where they currently are able to learn
👉 Why this matters: The right approach can unlock progress faster than you might expect. The wrong approach(es) will frustrate your child and you!
Building this individual program tailored to your child’s specific needs is the biggest key for how to homeschool with a successful outcome. Too many parents try to use what everyone else is using, but nobody else’s child is like YOUR child!
Your Learning ABLED Kid is UNIQUE and requires a unique program tailored for their individual needs!
🔗 Helpful next step: Homeschooling Children with Learning Disabilities
💬 If You’re Feeling Overwhelmed…
It’s okay. It’s a feeling MOST of us have before we start homeschooling. Most of it is fear because we don’t yet feel confident we know how to homeschool and we’re often afraid we’ll “ruin” our children!!
You’re not alone and you’re HERE seeking answers and solutions, and exploring how to homeschool. SO, you’re going to be okay!
You just haven’t been given the right roadmap yet, but now you better understand how to make sure you’re providing what your child needs. And it may FEEL scary or overwhelming, but learning actually becomes EASIER for your child when you’re focused solely on what your child needs.
Once you understand how your child learns, everything becomes clearer, easier, and more manageable.
📍 What You Can Do Next
Choose the path that best fits where you are right now:
🔎 If You’re Trying to Understand What’s Going On
- Understanding Learning Disabilities
- Signs and Symptoms of Dyslexia
- Processing Disorders Explained
- OR Buy one of our books to learn more keys to helping your child at home.
🧠 If You Need Clarity on How Your Child Learns
🛠️ If You’re Ready to Take Action
❤️ A Quick Note from Experience
This R.E.A.D. approach doesn’t come from theory alone—it came from walking this path. I had the advantage of being in a Master’s Degree program for Instructional Design when we started homeschooling.
That helped me build the perfect programs to help my children overcome their learning challenges. From there, I started helping other parents figure out how to homeschool their individual chilldren and how to build great programs too! You can read some of our Homeschooling Success Stories here too!
What made the real difference for each of us was stepping back and asking:
“How does my child learn, what does my child need, and what’s getting in the way?”
Once the answers to those questions became clear, everything else starts to fall into place.
✅ Final Encouragement
You don’t have to figure everything out at once. Just start with the first step:
👉 Start by seeking to Understand your child’s Learning Needs.
Along the path of seeking understanding of your child’s needs, each next step becomes clearer—and far more effective. I truly hope this guide helps you understand how to homeschool your child well!
God bless you for being a parent who is involved directly with meeting your child’s needs!!
I Wish MANY Blessings TO YOU and your child for a successful homeschooling journey!!
