September 2, 2015

Home Educating Gifted and 2e Kids including Victorian resources

Starting home education can be quite daunting—doubly so if you are deciding to home educate children with diverse learning needs, whether they are gifted, disabled, or both (called twice exceptional or 2e). Neurodiverse kids tend not to fit in neat school boxes, and can be a challenge to parent and to home educate.   Defining Giftedness Though giftedness can be hard to define, there […]
September 2, 2015

Seeing the Gift instead of the Problem

By Sue 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” in schools. In Australia there […]