Children need opportunities to socialise and that’s a fact! Recent research at the University of California, Los Angeles, showed that too much screen time is affecting the psychological development of children.
Technology is a great asset to education but too much can be damaging. The major concern is that many children are no longer engaging and socialising properly, face-to-face, and learning to read physical, verbal cues and emotional cues properly .
UCLA study tracked children at a camp without access to technology for five days and compared them to those children who carried on life as usual. Greenfield, a senior author of the study and a distinguished professor of psychology at UCLA said . "We found that the kids who had been to camp without any screens but with lots of those opportunities and necessities for interacting with other people in person improved significantly more.”
This is why, in our modern technological age, it is even more important for children to be trained properly in social interaction.
The Helen O’Grady Drama Academy’s international programme started nearly 40 years ago, when it was obvious that television and computers were having a huge affect on children's emotional and social development. Helen O’Grady, who was and actress and teacher, and who ran a network television show in Australia, noticed how poorly children communicated in our modern age and started the development of a performance-arts programme to facilitate these important interaction skills. This programme is now developed internationally with experts in the field of performance and speech training, to enhance the experience of children.
One of the parents in the Cape Town Academy recently wrote:
The drama programme of the Helen O’Grady Drama Academy’s global network is designed in a fun way to bring out the necessary skills in communication skills for our modern way. The proactive course highlights spoken language, training children in verbal and non-verbal communication skills. Children learn how react to each other on an emotional level and each class has at least 10 different real-life situations in which children learn to respond confidently.
Communication skills are the key to success in life and this starts with your very first interview. Those people who can communicate well will find that the doors open freely for them.
This is why it is crucial to start drama from an early age.
The Helen O’Grady drama classes are held at many of Cape Town’s top schools and the following private studios:
Athlone, Camps Bay, Fish Hoek, Goodwood, Grassy Park, Hout Bay, Mitchell’s Plain, Newlands, Pinelands, Plumstead, Rondebosch, Tokai.
www.dramaafrica.com
www.facebook.com/helenogradycapetown
Tel: 021 6747478
Technology is a great asset to education but too much can be damaging. The major concern is that many children are no longer engaging and socialising properly, face-to-face, and learning to read physical, verbal cues and emotional cues properly .
UCLA study tracked children at a camp without access to technology for five days and compared them to those children who carried on life as usual. Greenfield, a senior author of the study and a distinguished professor of psychology at UCLA said . "We found that the kids who had been to camp without any screens but with lots of those opportunities and necessities for interacting with other people in person improved significantly more.”
This is why, in our modern technological age, it is even more important for children to be trained properly in social interaction.
The Helen O’Grady Drama Academy’s international programme started nearly 40 years ago, when it was obvious that television and computers were having a huge affect on children's emotional and social development. Helen O’Grady, who was and actress and teacher, and who ran a network television show in Australia, noticed how poorly children communicated in our modern age and started the development of a performance-arts programme to facilitate these important interaction skills. This programme is now developed internationally with experts in the field of performance and speech training, to enhance the experience of children.
One of the parents in the Cape Town Academy recently wrote:
"Thank you for giving our children the opportunity to participate in the drama programme. It is refreshing to see the limitations taken off our children and to see them express themselves freely.”
Communication skills are the key to success in life and this starts with your very first interview. Those people who can communicate well will find that the doors open freely for them.
This is why it is crucial to start drama from an early age.
The Helen O’Grady drama classes are held at many of Cape Town’s top schools and the following private studios:
Athlone, Camps Bay, Fish Hoek, Goodwood, Grassy Park, Hout Bay, Mitchell’s Plain, Newlands, Pinelands, Plumstead, Rondebosch, Tokai.
www.dramaafrica.com
www.facebook.com/helenogradycapetown
Tel: 021 6747478
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