YMB #35 Special Needs and Morning Time: A Conversation with Meghan Dempster
Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill
Pam Barnhill
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
We love to say that Morning Time is for everyone from toddler to mom. No matter what your age, you can always take something from the subjects in Morning Time. This week Meghan Dempster is here to emphasize that message and add to it. Morning Time is beneficial to everyone no matter their abilities and needs as well.
Meghan and I chat about how Morning Time can help kids with special needs as well as how to meet some of the unique challenges that come with doing Morning Time with special needs kids. It's a lovely episode.
For shownotes and episode downloads, please visit https://pambarnhill.com/ymb35.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your homeschool day. |
| 0:17.8 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 35 of the Your Morning Basket podcast. I'm Pam Barnhill, |
| 0:24.5 | your host, and I am so happy that you are joining me here today. Well, today was a real treat. I got to speak to |
| 0:30.8 | homeschool mom, Megan Dempster, all about special needs homeschooling. Now, Megan has a master's degree in child development |
| 0:38.4 | from the University of Tennessee. And before having her own children, she worked with kids |
| 0:43.3 | from birth to age three who have special needs. Since then, she has had seven children |
| 0:49.0 | of her own. And some of those children have special needs as well. So when Megan reached out to us and volunteered to be on the podcast to talk about doing morning time with special needs kids, we knew we had found the perfect person for the show. |
| 1:02.5 | I think you're going to enjoy this one today. |
| 1:04.5 | And hey, if you don't have special needs kids, listen anyway because I picked up a couple of really great ideas that I'm going to use |
| 1:12.6 | in my own morning time I hope you enjoy would you like to bring classical music into your |
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| 1:46.1 | They perform dozens of titles like Peter and the Wolf, The Nutcracker, and the Story of Swan Lake. |
| 1:52.4 | What makes Maestro Classic CDs so special is that each one contains an activity book for your children. |
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| 2:03.6 | math, geography, and more. |
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| 2:09.8 | the history and stories behind the music, |
| 2:12.3 | information about the instruments, |
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