Castlemaine Mail, Friday September 12, 2008
Reproduced by permission
Home educated Maldon student Amelia Rowe has achieved outstanding results in the 2008 Rio Tinto Big Science Competition.
The Big Science Competition is a national competition held annually throughout Australia, creating a fun and challenging way for students to be involved in science.
Nine-year-old Amelia competed in the Year 7/8 [...]
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Home Education and Special Needs Children – Part 2
The Place of Work Place Style Learning
By Rosanne Trevaskis
The last issue of Otherways provided a useful summary of the research on home education and children with special needs. In it, Sue identified the importance of the one-to-one teaching relationship.
“All the research shows that home education offers more individual attention which is believed to be the vital ingredient necessary for academic success in the education of children with LD” (p19).
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By Susan Wight
The research on home educating special needs children is very positive, showing advantages both academically and socially. An American study by Stephen Duvall is one of the most thorough to date. It concluded that home education offers more of the kind of education that special needs children need most and that they benefit [...]
Isolated Children’s Allowance – all states
This assistance is paid to all families who have children in boarding school or living away from home in order to attend school. It is also paid for children who are enrolled in a state approved Distance Education programme. If you are home educating your child for medical reasons you may also be eligible for [...]
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Special Ed Class or Homeschool? Statistics Speak
HSLDA writer – summary of Dr. Steven Duvall’s research
Academic research on home education of special needs children is encouraging. Dr. Steven Duvall is a behavioural psychologist who has objectively measured the amount of time and the kinds of interactions that take place in the classroom and in homeschool settings. [...]
The Beat of a Different Drum – Asperger’s Syndrome
By Susan Wight
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
- Henry David Thoreau
In many ways Asperger Syndrome seems to be the latest fad. ADD and ADHD were the fashionable diagnosis [...]
Home Educating Gifted Children
By Susan Wight
Home educating is all very well, but what if your children are gifted? Won’t they need the special programs only available in school? How could a parent be qualified to educate them? Don’t gifted children have trouble socialising anyway, and won’t home education make that worse?
School Provision
Firstly, let’s look at those “special programs” [...]
Older Kids – Decompression
By Cafi Cohen
‘He just won’t do anything!’ say the parents of teenagers who have just left school. Prior to beginning homeschooling, these parents have high hopes. They envision their older kids industriously attacking thoughtfully selected curriculum, running a business, publishing a book, graduating early, and winning big scholarship money.
Some of those things may happen, but [...]
Special Needs or Just Special?
By Mary Gold
It was going to be his first day on the mountain and my old anxieties were creeping in. With his brand new snowboard tucked under his arm and his first-ever season [...]
Does School ‘Socialise’ children?
By Susan Wight, Bendigo, Victoria
One of the meanings of the term “socialisation” is the process by which the accepted culture is passed on to the next generation. For centuries this process was a natural one performed by families and an increasingly wider circle as children grew to adulthood. Children learnt about the world by living [...]