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Just because it’s different, doesn’t mean it’s less: Chatting with Shawna Wingert [Episode 6]

In this episode, the sisters chat with one of their most favorite people: Shawna Wingert. Shawna is a writer, speaker, author, and homeschool mom to two amazing boys with special needs. Do you ever feel like your homeschool doesn’t or can’t look like the homeschool next door, or the family at church or co-op, or even all the families on the internet? Shawna joins the sisters to remind you that it’s OK, and that just because you have to do things a little differently, that doesn’t mean what you are doing is less.

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Links from the episode

• 5 Things I Wish I’d Known When My Son Was Diagnosed With Autism | Shawna Wingert, Not the Former Things

• 20 Things I Have Learned Since My Son Was Diagnosed With Autism | Shawna Wingert, Not the Former Things

• All kids have special needs | Jamie C. Martin, Simple Homeschool

• Air Travel and Autism: A Letter To Jet Blue | Shawna Wingert, Not the Former Things

• Dear Mom at Target | Shawna Wingert, Not the Former Things
• Homeschooling, but not at home | Shawna Wingert, Simple Homeschool
• Homeschooling to my child’s strengths | Shawna Wingert, Simple Homeschool
• Homeschooling with depression: The hardest part of Shawna’s homeschool year | Shawna Wingert, Simple Homeschool
• Homeschooling with Dyslexia 
• Homeschool is not the boss of me | Shawna Wingert, Simple Homeschool
• I Am That Mom | Shawna Wingert, Not the Former Things
• Learning to read without books: Supporting your dyslexic homeschooler | Shawna Wingert, Simple Homeschool
• On My Worst Days| Shawna Wingert, Not the Former Things
• Special Needs Motherhood is Lonely Work | Shawna Wingert, Not the Former Things
• The biggest problem in our homeschool is me | Shawna Wingert, Simple Homeschool

• To the Mommy I was 7 Years Ago | Shawna Wingert, Not the Former Things

• When Church Hurts | Shawna Wingert, Not the Former Things
• When We Fail Our Children | Shawna Wingert, Not the Former Things
• When worksheets don’t work | Shawna Wingert, Simple Homeschool
• When Your Child Isn’t at Grade Level | Shawna Wingert, Not the Former Things
• Why I call myself an “Autism Mom” | Shawna Wingert, Autism Speaks
• Working with doctors when your homeschooler has special needs | Shawna Wingert, Simple Homeschool

Books from this episode

• Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life by Glennon Doyle Melton
• Everyday Autism: An Inside Look at Parenting a Child on the Autism Spectrum by Shawna Wingert

• Special Education At Home: Out-of-Box-Learning for Out-of-the-Box Learners by Shawna Wingert

Be sure to follow Shawna

Shawna writes at Not The Former Things, and you can also find her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.

You can also find Shawna on the following sites:

• Autism Speaks
• For Every Mom
• Simple Homeschool
• Ed Snapshots: Homeschool Snapshots Podcast
• The Huffington Post
• The Mighty
• The SPD Zone Podcast
• Today.com 

… and many, many more!

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