Ellen Stanley
Ellen is former Home Education Mom to an adult child with complex needs, and Educational consultant, Life coach and frequency balancing Practitioner. She is a Home Education reviewer for Maine, New Hampshire and beyond. Each year she has the honor of celebrating and supporting home education families and gets an up close view of the strengths and needs of the home Education community.
Ellen graduated with honors from Ohio University, where she majored in Elementary and early childhood education. As her career began and continued she became a magnet for learners with extraordinary and diverse needs. To help her with these extraordinary needs, Ellen continued her education and became credentialed in early childhood and elementary Special education.
Ellen completed training in a specialized Autism program called the SOn-Rise program, which she immersed herself in for over 20 years, and still feels passionate about today. Ellen became professionally certified in the Option Process ® dialogue,a targeted process to help individuals better understand themselves and reach their goals effectively, A process critical for parents and practitioners working with special learners.
Ellen has been an advocate for children’s health for over 20 years, and has a passion for increasing awareness about factors affecting children’s health today. Ellen is passionate about increasing flexibility in education and creating learning environments that promote success and growth for all students and families, but in particular those with complex needs. She combines her educational and special needs training, her life coaching and energy balancing to assist families in creating extraordinary home education and learning programs for their children.
Ellen Is passionate about supporting Home Education in Maine, and empowering parents with the knowledge and confidence to educate their complex or extra needs children. She is a wiz at out of the box solutions and connecting families with available resources. She helps families find educational solutions that work for the whole family. Ellen Is thrilled to be on the board of MHEA, where she will work in leadership to strengthen home education and complex needs networks in Maine and beyond.
