These are Speech and Language, Painting and Clay Modelling, Eurythmy and Healing.

Speech and Language 

Speech and Language Therapy at the Sheiling School aims to maximise the fulfilment of every pupil's learning potential and sense of inclusion by promoting a Total Communication environment by providing appropriate therapy, individually or in small groups, based on a full assessment of each students' communication levels.

Painting and clay modelling

The painting or clay modelling sessions, individually approached, as practised at the Sheiling School are in unity with Rudolf Steiner’s holistic image of man.  These sessions are an extension of the Waldorf curriculum enhancing the curative approaches and methods already practised here.  They add the new dimension of a free creative space which allows the pupil to express himself through the living quality of colour and form.

Exercises are imaginatively guided and creatively tailored to a pupil’s present situation.  Thereby living ideas unfold in a unique way naturally reflecting the pupil’s own personality.  By rhythmically working in this way a playfulness is encouraged which creates joy and harmony and well being.  A pupil’s progress is measured on the level of imaginative interactions, not by artistic achievements.

Painting seasonal pictures can foster a deep-breathing relationship to the rhythms of nature, enriching the soul.  Polarities like day and night, light and darkness, warmth and cold, narrow spaces, wide expanses, mountains and sea-scapes, often coupled with a story, may enhance the student’s sense of self worth.

Eurythmy therapy

The aim of Eurythmy Therapy is to work towards balancing and harmonizing the different systems to do with thinking, feeling and willing as expressed in the nervous system, the breathing and circulatory system and the metabolic and limb system.  Movement exercises, as prescribed by the school doctor, are done under the guidance of the therapist in one to one weekly sessions over a minimum period of seven weeks.

Healing

Healing is given on an individual basis, by a qualified healer and experienced curative educator, through the laying-on-of hands, i.e. ‘contact healing’. It is given only in response to the written request, and consent, of each pupil’s parents/guardians, and is only given to pupils who are happy to receive this particular form of complementary therapy.  Healing sessions give the opportunity for each child or young person with special needs to become  peaceful and still.

	All boarding pupils are registered with the local G.P. A senior co-worker with nursing experience lives on site and acts as medical co-ordinator, helping to maintain liaison between doctors and houseparents.