News & Stories

A day of celebration

December 16, 2013

On December 9, Camphill Special School’s 50th birthday, the whole school performed a play of Oscar Wilde’s beautiful fable, The Selfish Giant. The giant in this story is so selfish that he won’t allow the children to play in his garden. Instead he chases them away, builds a wall and puts up a sign saying: […]

What is Curative Education?

December 6, 2013

Children with intellectual and developmental disabilities have always presented society with a puzzle. We are accustomed to looking at one another and recognizing ourselves in the reflection: we see another human being who is just like us. But when we meet a child with special needs we turn and look again. Here before us is […]

Have you heard about #GivingTuesday?

November 19, 2013

OnDecember 3, 2013 Camphill Special School will be taking part as an official partner of #GivingTuesday. This is a movement to create a national day of giving to kick off the giving season. It was added to the calendar on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. In the same way that retail stores […]

Therapies at Camphill Special School

November 14, 2013

Remember the first time you were able to ride your bike without a helping hand? The freedom of movement and independence that you experienced was glorious—the wind in your hair, the pavement spinning by, the whir of the wheels. These movements and sensations are the ingredients by which our bodies learn to move and think. […]

The Stuff That Bonds: A Teacher’s Reflection

October 29, 2013

Hours of costume fittings, set building, and recitation of lines all contributed to the intensity of the final stretch. The twelfth grade play is the culmination of all of their years at Beaver Run. Each student performed their role admirably. Not only carrying themselves, but also each other, through moments of stress and emotion. This […]

Coloring our classrooms

October 15, 2013

While things were quiet here in August, a group of painters came to the Schoolhouse to brighten some classrooms. Robert Logsdon and his lazure crew came from Massachusetts. The team worked quickly to apply the vibrant layers of paint and achieve the texture we associate with the walls at Camphill Special School. Lazure is layers […]

Peer Communities Prepare Students with Special Needs for Life and Employment after Graduation

September 25, 2013

Picture yourself as a young adult finishing high school, preparing to take your next steps in the world. What opportunities await you? Which college or vocational program will you consider in order to continue learning and developing the skills necessary for a responsible adult life? High school graduation also marks a special milestone in the […]

No-test, No-tech School: Waldorf takes hands-on approach to learning—Waldorf on CNN with Dr. Gupta

September 10, 2013

Waldorf education is catching on from coast to coast. Dr. Sanjay Gupta examines this innovative approach to learning. “Parents all over, they wring their hands about the state of schools—and there’s this big debate about high stakes testing. Does it hurt creativity, or does it actually offer accountability? So, imagine a school then with no […]

Giving thanks

August 9, 2013

One of the first words that a child learns to say or sign at Camphill Special School is “thank you.” We say “thank you” to Elsbeth at the end of our music lesson; we say “thank you” to Tina at the end of handwork class; we say “thank you” for our food at snack time […]

Gathered around the table

July 31, 2013

It is an iconic image of any Camphill community – all the members of a household gathered around the table sharing their mid-day meal. The ideals of community, sharing, and extended family are cornerstones of Camphill. Beaver Farm is no exception; the entire Transition Program shares the mid-day meal together – all fifty of them! […]

Living with Autism

July 25, 2013

Beaver Farm. I drive past the sign and pull up. Mike has been standing at the gate waiting for me to come home. He has jet black hair and a wrestler’s build. I wind the car window down as he opens it for me. “Hi Guy!” he says. His greeting is so full of warmth […]

Therapy Program

July 10, 2013

Camphill Special School is home to a vast array of therapies. Whether the therapies are mainstream ones like speech, occupational therapy, physical therapy or hippo-therapy, or lesser known approaches to healing like rhythmic massage, color light, movement therapy or oil dispersion baths, one central tenet holds sway: the attempt to create a wholesome approach where […]

Agricultural Communities for Adults with Autism

July 3, 2013

May 28, 2013Shaun Donovan, SecretaryVia Email Secretary.Donovan@hud.govU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development451 Seventh Street SWWashington, D.C. 20410Dear Secretary Donovan:Agricultural Communities for Adults with Autism (ACAA) is a consortium of 35 existing national service providers (and organizations in development) focused on offering, in different mixes: meaningful and stable employment, safe high quality housing, essential residential […]

Have the experience of your life at Camphill Special School: volunteer gap years, internships, professional qualification and a (debt free!) Bachelors degree

May 22, 2013

Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding ‘gap year’ experience between high school and college? Are you taking a break from college? Have you finished your degree and want to gain some rich hands-on experience in education, special needs education, crafts, land work, therapy and community living? Or are you looking for an alternative […]

Heart, head, and hands: woodworking in our Waldorf curriculum

May 15, 2013

Aside from making sawdust, we do many things in woodworking at Camphill Special School. Our woodworking curriculum begins in the third grade when the children are ready developmentally to begin… by making a house! The process of creating a dwelling place ostensibly results in a safe and nurturing space in which to play, work, and […]

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