John and Camille Peacock at the Portsea Camp 2007
| 11 June 2007 | to | 14 June 2007 |
John and Camille Peacock will be our guests at the second half of the Portsea Camp: 11th - 14th June.
John and Camille are long term home educators who live in Tasmania. They withdrew their eldest daughter from school in 1975 and now have 5 grown up children, all of whom were home educated according to their individual personalities, gifts and developmental time frames.
Dr John Peacock is the author of The How and Why of Australian Home Education, the first PhD on Australian home education which he completed at LaTrobe University in 1997. It remains the most authoritative work on Australian home education.
John’s involvement with home education has included TV appearances, radio segments, conference appearances, contributions to the print media and the production of not one, but three home education magazines. He was also a member of the Ministerial Working Party on Home Education in Tasmania.
Camille Peacock is a Speech & Language Pathologist who has worked in both hospital and school settings in Australia, England and Wales. She studied at the Royal Free Medical School and University College, London. Camille’s special interests are Neurological Rehabilitation and Autism Spectrum Disorder. She has held both clinical and senior management positions in Neurological Rehabilitation Units. At present she works for the Tasmanian Department of Education in supporting the integration of students with disabilities into mainstream classrooms. Part of her role includes providing workshops for parents, teachers and teacher aides in the areas of Developmental Delay, Specific Language Impairment and Autism Spectrum Disorder (including Asperger’s). Her frustration is that the students’ individual needs could be catered for so much better at home.
Talks and Workshops:
- Australian home education How to Home Educate for $1 a day
- Literacy
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (TBC)