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Seventeen detailed case studies of children with special needs and the effect of Rudolf Steiner's approach on their development.
Description
This book offers seventeen detailed case studies of children with special needs, dating back to the early twentieth century. The clinical and social background of each child is presented, and their interactions with Rudolf Steiner are described.
Uhlenhoff documents Steiner's recommendations concerning medication, curative eurythmy and other educational therapies and then traces their continuing progress over the coming months and years. The development of each child is described in great detail and with great warmth, with meaningful anecdotes adding colour and depth to the accounts.
Author
Wilhelm Uhlenhoff was born in 1922 and studied medicine. From 1952 to 1984 he was the doctor at the Lauterbad home for children with special needs near Kassel in Germany. From 1966 he was also on the board of the German Association of Curative Education. He lives in Überlingen on Lake Constance.
Links
More on children with special needs:
Children with a Difference
Holistic Special Education
Children with Special Needs
