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A Professional's Guide to Working With Homeschooling Families

Welcome to the web version of HSC's new guide. The objective of this guide is to offer doctors, lawyers, mediators, social workers, judges, therapists, school officials, and other professionals a ready source of information on homeschooling and to support dialogue between homeschoolers and professionals.

Please feel free to print and distribute all or part of this guide.

Table Of Contents

• Introduction
  
• History and Philosophy of Homeschooling
• Socialization and the Homeschooled Student
• The Whole Child and Homeschooling
• Programs and Options in Homeschooling
• "Am I Really Qualified to Teach my own Children?": Some Thoughts on this Common and Provocative Question
• The Legality of Homeschooling
• Transitions to and from Homeschooling
• Home-Based High School
• Homeschooling the Special Needs Child