For neurodivergent learners

Homeschooling a child with autism or ADHD

Most curricula are built around a calendar. Week 1, Week 2, Week 30, and a child who needs four days on a concept spends the rest of the year behind a schedule that was never about them. For a lot of autistic and ADHD kids that is the whole problem, and it has very little to do with whether they can learn the material.

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Off the clock, if you want it that way

The optional learning games for grades 3 to 12 have timers, lives and streaks, and some children love them. If yours does not, switch on "No timers" in their Learning Supports and the games are hidden. Read & Recall practice, which every lesson has, has no timer: a question waits as long as it waits, and mastery is scored on whether the skill is learned, so a child who needs to reread the question four times loses nothing by doing it.

Units and lessons, not weeks

Lessons used to be labelled "Week 3", and in September 2026 a parent wrote to tell us her autistic son read that as a deadline he was failing every single day. She was right, and the label was ours, not his. We renamed all 3,402 lessons across 135 courses to units and lessons. A unit is a body of work, not a date, and finishing one on day 40 is finishing it.

Wrong answers get a reason, not a red X

Clara, the teacher built into every lesson, reads the actual mistake and explains it. A child who answers 136 to 304 minus 178 is told which column went wrong and walked through that column, not told to try again. For a kid who has learned that being wrong means being finished, the difference between an explanation and a buzzer is the whole difference.

You can read every word before you buy

All 71 courses are readable in full with no account and no card. Every unit, every skill, every objective, in the order they are taught. If you have already paid for three curricula that turned out to be wrong for your child, you should not have to pay for a fourth to find out. Read the reading level, the workload and the sequence, then decide.

You can read what the teacher actually said

From the parent side you can open any lesson and read the whole conversation between Clara and your child, in the order it was said. Not a summary and not a score. If you are not sitting beside them, you can still see exactly how a machine spoke to your child. Conversations are kept for 30 days and then deleted.

One price, every child, and the records keep themselves

$29 a month covers every child in the household, with no extra seats to buy. Instructional hours log themselves while your child works, mastery is tracked per skill as a portfolio record, and a transcript prints in one click, which is most of what a state notice or an evaluation asks you to produce.

What this is not

  • This is not a special education program. There is no IEP, no ABA, no occupational or speech therapy, and nothing here replaces any of them.
  • It is not designed for autism or ADHD specifically. It is a general K-12 curriculum whose pacing and feedback happen to suit a lot of neurodivergent kids, which is a smaller and more honest claim.
  • Older lessons are mostly read and typed unless you switch on supports such as read-aloud and answering by tapping or out loud. A child who is pre-reading will still need you beside them, and for some children that makes it the wrong tool right now.
  • Learning Supports are teaching choices, not therapy. A calm low-sensory look, focus mode and movement breaks help some children; they are not a sensory or occupational therapy programme.

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Before your child starts: what we collect and why

We collect only what it takes to teach your child: the first name and sign-in you choose, their answers and progress, and their chat with Clara (written by Anthropic's AI, read aloud by OpenAI). Nobody trains AI on it or sells it, and you can see or delete it any time. You create your child's account yourself. Paying by card is how you give consent.

Read what we collect and why

Your consent is needed before we collect anything from your child, and we collect nothing without it. You create your child's account yourself; they never sign up alone.

  • What we collect from your child: the first name and sign-in you choose, their answers, time on lessons and progress, and their chat with Clara. Used to run the lessons, build their transcript and show you how they are doing.
  • Who else handles it: Anthropic (an AI company) receives the chat text and the lesson, with your child's first name but no last name or account details, to write Clara's replies. That is how Clara works, so it is part of the service. If you switch on answering out loud for a child, their voice is turned into text on our own server and then discarded; it is never sent to another company. OpenAI turns lesson text and Clara's replies (which can include your child's first name) into the read-aloud voice. Our email provider sends you reports about your child. Nobody trains AI on your child's data, and nobody sells it.
  • Your rights: see everything collected from your child, have it deleted, or stop further collection at any time, from your account or by emailingour support address. If you refuse the AI sharing above, Clara cannot teach, so the service cannot run. Chats are deleted after 30 days.
  • Safety: if your child writes something suggesting they may be hurt or in danger, we email you and Clareza's owner the same day.

Paying by card is how you give consent. Full details, including how long we keep each thing: Privacy Policy (version 2026-10-05).

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Questions parents ask

Is Clareza Academy suitable for an autistic child?

It depends on the child, and the fastest way to find out is to read the courses, which are open in full with no account and no card. What it offers is self-paced work with no weekly deadlines, a "No timers" support that hides the timed games, and a teacher that explains a wrong answer instead of marking it. What it is not is a special education program or a substitute for therapy or an IEP.

Is anything timed or scored on speed?

The optional learning games are: they use timers, lives, streaks and speed bonuses. Read & Recall practice is not timed. Switch on "No timers" in your child's Learning Supports and the games are hidden. Mastery is scored on whether the skill is learned.

What happens if my child takes a month on one unit?

Nothing. Units are bodies of work rather than dates, and there is no schedule to fall behind. Lessons were renamed from weeks to units in September 2026 for exactly this reason.

Can I see what Clara says to my child?

Yes. From the parent side you can open any lesson and read the full conversation, in the order it was said, with no summarising in between. Conversations are kept for 30 days and then deleted.

How much is it for more than one child?

The same. $29 a month covers every child in the household. There are no per-child seats.

Can I try it without paying?

All 71 courses are readable in full right now with no account and no card, and there is a full sample lesson you can do with no payment. Signing up starts 30 days free; a card is taken and nothing is charged until day 30, and cancelling before then costs nothing.

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