Association for a Healing Education || Working to strengthen Waldorf Schools

About AHE - the Association for a Healing Education

For 25 years, the Association for a Healing Education has served as an agent of change in the culture of education for children with individual needs. It has acted as a "listening ear" to the needs and questions of classroom teachers, parents, and therapists who are involved with providing care for the child of today. Our main work is with children in regular classrooms who, faced with the challenges of their destiny and the world environment, often require some help for a time.

Services for Schools from AHE

Many of our speakers and consultants can travel to other areas of the country for school visits, education programs and workshops. A number of them work internationally in teacher development programs.

Workshops & Conferences

Schools and groups can contract with Association for a Healing Education to provide workshops and conferences. Our speakers, whose qualifications include post-graduate degrees in specialized fields of learning and years of proven success in their particular areas of expertise, address a variety of topics that pertain to the child of today .

What is the Extra Lesson?

In our work with the children in the Waldorf school we strive to create a complete picture of each child so that we can best meet his/her needs. Part of the process may include family visits, medical history taking, review of previous school records, including testing, and discussions with all of the child’s teachers. An additional component of our program is called the Extra Lesson, which derives its name from work begun in the 1970s in England, by Audrey McAllen. Taking up Rudolf Steiner’s many lectures about the developing child, she was inspired to develop a first lesson of assessment techniques and then a curriculum of movement, speech, drawing and painting exercises for children found to have learning barriers.