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A Man Without Words

By Oliver Sacks , Susan Schaller

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0520274911, 9780520274914
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7634974 bytes)
Edition
Second Edition, With New Material
Pages
221\220
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-12-07 00:24:36

Description

For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student, encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been sent as an interpreter and where he sat isolated, since he knew no sign language. She found him obviously intelligent and sharply observant but unable to communicate, and she felt compelled to bring him to a comprehension of words. The book vividly conveys the challenge, the frustrations, and the exhilaration of opening the mind of a congenitally deaf person to the concept of language. This second edition includes a new chapter and afterword.

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