Kathy Kuhl

2025 MassHOPE Convention Speaker

Speaker Bio

Kathy Kuhl equips parents teaching children with learning challenges. She guides, encourages, and recommends resources. After homeschooling her creative, distractible, dyslexic son, she wrote the handbook she had wished for,Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner. Based on research and interviews with 64 parents homeschooling students with dyslexia, ADHD, autism, and other invisible disabilities, her books help parents teach children who learn differently. Kathy also wrote Staying Sane as You Homeschool, Encouraging Your Child, and the online course Homeschooling with ADHD. Parents of two and grandparents of five, Kathy and her husband Fred live in Virginia.


Workshops handouts available for download below.

Speaker Workshops

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Planning Homeschool with Learning Challenges

Your child struggles with some part of learning, or perhaps has given up. How do you help them begin again? How do you establish wise goals? How will you tell when you’ve reached them? Learn how to work around areas of weakness, strengthen them, and adapt curriculum. Get tips on how to keep going and to help your child keep going.

Screens, Tech, and Learning Challenges

Screen time, smart devices, social media, and online learning offer opportunities and challenges for all families. But for families with children who learn differently—learning disabled, gifted, and/or other special needs—the pros and cons differ. Considering the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual aspects, Kathy Kuhl offers insights and resources to help you navigate the best course for your family.

College Bound, but Struggling: Tools for Success

When high school becomes challenging, some teens discover that they’ve been unknowingly battling learning disabilities or other challenges. Others have known and progressed doggedly. Is college still possible? Is it best? Learn tools for high school, college, and career success from author Kathy Kuhl. For parents and teens.

When Math Doesn't Come Easily

How do you teach math effectively to a child with learning challenges? What if you can’t bear tackling math facts again? How do you move beyond the times tables when your child has not mastered them? What are your options for high school math? Veteran homeschooler and math teacher Kathy Kuhl discusses working with children with difficulties in math, and shares strategies you can incorporate into any math curriculum.

Distractible, Impulsive, Hyperactive & Happily Homeschooled

Got a child who can’t sit still? A highly impulsive teen? A distracted or inattentive student? Change your home school to help your children improve their focus and nurture those wandering, creative minds. Veteran homeschooler and author Kathy Kuhl also discusses the related character issues, and how to teach if you’re distractible, too.

When Writing Doesn't Come Easily

Does your child struggle to write, to form letters, or to compose a clear paragraph or an essay? Learn about causes of writing problems, handwriting tips, and accommodations for problems with handwriting, memory, organization, spelling and vocabulary. Kathy Kuhl homeschooled her dysgraphic son (who loves to write), taught composition and English in schools and coops, and has written three books.

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