Patzlaff, Rainer,

Childhood falls silent : the loss of speech and how we need to foster speaking and communication in the electronic age / Loss of speech and how we need to foster speaking and communication in the electronic age Rainer Patzlaff. - 19 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Title from cover. "Dr. Rainer Patzlaff is a teacher at the Waldorf School in Stuttgart, and a member of the board of the Association of Waldorf Schools in Germany. This essay was originally translated for and published in Kindling, the UK Journal for Steiner Early Childhood." - Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

"This booklet, translated from German, gives a strong picture of the loss of speech and language abilities in children today, explains why technically transmitted speech diminishes brain function, and encourages us to counter it with life-giving, humanly connected speech." -- waldorfbooks.com


Translated from the German.


Language disorders in children.
Communicative disorders in children.
Speech disorders in children.
Waldorf method of education

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