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