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A man without words / Susan Schaller ; foreword by Oliver Sacks.

Title
A man without words / Susan Schaller ; foreword by Oliver Sacks.
Author
Schaller, Susan.
Publication
Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, 2012.

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Description
218 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
"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. A Man without Words vividly conveys the challenge, the frustrations, and the exhilaration of opening the mind of a congenitally deaf person to the concept of language"--P. [4] of cover.
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Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780520274914 (pbk.)
  • 0520274911 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 809554204
  • SCSB-11787958
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library