Hi Steph,
I am a beginning homeschooler, and I am not very familiar with dysphasia so please take what I say with that understanding. 🙂
I just wanted to recommend this page to you if you have not already seen it:
[Edited by admin: Link removed to honor Ambleside’s use agreement that links may only be made by permission and then only to the home page. You can go to their home page and search on “special needs” to find the resource.]
And as far as I understand CM or any CM curriculum that I’ve seen, you would not need to worry about what year you place your daughter in so much as the skills to cover as much as what sort of material you might want for her to learn (in history, for example). That way you don’t have to worry about “catching up” or going through beginning years quickly. She would just be where she is. I think the skills type of subjects (math, reading, writing/language arts) can be covered at whatever level she is and that you could pick freely from among whatever (history/geography/etc.) topics under various “years” that you want. And you could match literature selections to her level interest too which may mean picking and choosing from various years/grade levels. Is that making sense?
For example here at SCM, you could decide which module you would want to study and go from there. (http://simplycharlottemason.com/planning/scmguide/hgboverview/) You could pick and choose from books across the grade levels/years that would suit your daughter and interest her and then keep working on the basic skills that she needs at her pace.
And of course the songs, music, art, nature study and such could also be done at her pace and to match her interests.
I hope this helps a little. Best wishes to you and your daughter.
Take care,
Kim W.
