Homeschooling a Child With Autism or ADHD in Alaska

What Alaska asks of a homeschool family

These are the homeschool rules we have on file for Alaska, last verified 2026-08. Our Alaska page has the full list, with sources.

Getting started (notice)

none. A child taught at home by a parent or legal guardian is exempt from compulsory attendance and the state asks for no filing at all. Alaska also runs district correspondence programs, but those are public school enrolments with their own rules and allotments, not homeschooling.

Records you must keep

none required.

Testing / evaluation

none.

Special education and your homeschooled child in Alaska

We researched this from Alaska's statutes and administrative code, the state education department and the US Department of Education, last checked October 2026. Where a source was missing, old or in conflict, the line says so instead of guessing. Federal law (IDEA) gives a child placed in private school by a parent no individual right to services, only a share of the district's equitable-services funds, and each state decides how a home school is counted.

How the state counts a home school

Its own category, not a private school

Alaska treats a child educated at home by a parent as its own category: 4 AAC 52.090(a) lists children "being educated in their homes by a parent" separately from children in private schools, and 4 AAC 05.035 lists "private, correspondence, or home school" students separately as exempt from compulsory attendance under AS 14.30.010(b).

Asking for an evaluation

Under 4 AAC 52.090 and 4 AAC 52.100 each district must run child find and offer special education to children with disabilities ages 3 to 21 who reside in the district, and the regulation expressly includes children educated at home by a parent. The district of residence is therefore the district to contact; the regulations opened are the version published through a 2023 register.

Services and IEPs

4 AAC 52.090(a) says each district must administer a program offering special education and related services to provide a free appropriate public education to resident children with disabilities, naming children educated at home by a parent. How districts apply this to families who do not enroll was not confirmed from a primary state guidance document, and nothing found says what happens to an existing IEP on withdrawal; 4 AAC 52.155 separately says a district is not responsible for the cost of a private school placement chosen by a parent when it offered an appropriate program.

Part-time classes, therapies and activities at the public school

4 AAC 05.035 requires a district's public schools to enroll a part-time student, expressly including a private, correspondence or home school student, at the request of the student or parent if space is available in the course and prerequisites are met. Districts may also allow dual enrollment under that regulation (last amended in 1998).

Scholarships and funding for a child with a disability

No state voucher or education savings account for children with disabilities was found in the primary sources we read. Public correspondence study programs run by districts (4 AAC 33.405 to 33.490) allow a parent to use a fund account for approved tutoring, materials and similar items listed in the student's individual learning plan, but those students are enrolled in a public program, and dollar amounts were not verified.

Also worth knowing

4 AAC 33.432 requires a district that offers a correspondence study program to enroll special education students on the same basis as any other student and to meet child find, services, procedural safeguards and IEP requirements for them. The Alaska family handbook the research found was hosted by a third party and was not used as a basis for any claim.

State office to ask: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, Special Education.

Sources we read

A plain-language summary of public sources, not legal advice. Scholarship and school-choice programs change often, and we have left dollar amounts out on purpose. Confirm current rules with the state office before you act.

Pace, testing and the plan

Check the testing and evaluation line above for Alaska, since it can depend on how you homeschool. Where a test or an evaluation applies, remember that Learning Supports change how lessons look and feel while your child learns. They are not part of a test or an evaluation. Whether a child can be given accommodations on the test, or with the evaluator, is something to ask the test provider or evaluator before the day, and we cannot tell you what Alaska allows.

Records in Alaska

Check the records line above for Alaska. Letters & Devotion logs instructional hours automatically while your child works, tracks mastery per skill as a ready-made portfolio record, and prints a transcript in one click. Turning supports on or off does not change that record, and nothing in it names a condition, because Letters & Devotion never stores a diagnosis.

Six Learning Supports you can switch on

A parent ticks what helps, never a condition. Each support is a bundle of single switches, and any switch can be changed on its own. After about three weeks the parent side asks whether a support is helping.

Reading support
Often chosen for dyslexia
Read-aloud with each word highlighted, a clearer font, extra spacing and answer buttons.
Focus support
Often chosen for ADHD
Short pieces, one question on screen and movement breaks.
Predictable routine
Often chosen for autism
The same layout, a heads-up before changes, a calm look and plain wording.
Math support
Often chosen for dyscalculia
Pictures and a calculator, with nothing timed.
Writing support
Often chosen for dysgraphia
Answer out loud, with ideas counted over spelling.
Low-pressure mode
Often chosen for anxiety or perfectionism
No scores, calm feedback and a free second try.

What this is not

It does not diagnose anything or store a diagnosis. Your child never sees a condition name.
It is not special education, therapy or an evaluation, and it is not a substitute for an IEP.
Read-aloud is a computer voice, not a person, and answering out loud needs the microphone switch.
Some lesson rewrites, such as plainer literal wording, are pre-written, so not every lesson has one.

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Questions

Can I homeschool a child with autism or ADHD in Alaska?

Alaska's homeschool rules are summarized on this page. On special education: Alaska treats a child educated at home by a parent as its own category: 4 AAC 52.090(a) lists children "being educated in their homes by a parent" separately from children in private schools, and 4 AAC 05.035 lists "private, correspondence, or home school" students separately as exempt from compulsory attendance under AS 14.30.010(b). Under 4 AAC 52.090 and 4 AAC 52.100 each district must run child find and offer special education to children with disabilities ages 3 to 21 who reside in the district, and the regulation expressly includes children educated at home by a parent. The district of residence is therefore the district to contact; the regulations opened are the version published through a 2023 register.

Does Letters & Devotion store my child’s diagnosis?

No. You pick supports, never a condition, nothing stores a diagnosis, and your child never sees a condition name. Support settings are never sent to analytics.

Does this replace an evaluation or an IEP?

No. The setup screen says it plainly: these change how lessons look and feel, and they are not a substitute for an evaluation or an IEP.

Do the supports work with Alaska's testing rules?