Homeschooling our 13 year old son

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We have decided to homeschool our 13 year old son, wanting to get any suggestions as to what the best way to teach him is? A friend of mine who is in the spectrum suggested that dvd's such as discovery channel and history channel would be very interesting to him. I bought the whole set of Modern Marvels and he seems to enjoy that very much just wanting any suggestions.

Check this out:

http://www.k12.com/

I can't vouch for this program from experience, but it might be worth checking out. Good luck!

It depends on how he learns. Visually? (pictures, movies, presentations) Verbally or written? (books, essays, speeches) Kinesthetically? (projects, examples, experiments) etc

I think with aspies unschooling is a good option when they're older (once they got most basic skills in the realm of schooling.) Most have a curiosity for learning. I learn way more at home than I ever did while I was at school, and I like learning what I want to learn. Aspies usually have the childlike curiosity about things even when they are older.

I really like nonfiction books about the topics I'm interested in. Videos can be interesting too, but they're hard for me to pay attention to. I think a library card is a good idea if you haven't one already, they typically have DVDs, magazines, etc.

But don't let him fall behind in a realm. For instance, my struggle is with mathematics. And now I have to make up for the basic math I never did pick up on very well in school. But the plus side is I can learn in a way that makes sense to me with other resources.

Thank you so much for your responses, I'm taking all the advice I can. This is a wonderful site and I'm so glad my friend told me about it