Name: a man without words
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Author: Oliver Sacks
ISBN: 9780520274914

Type

Physical Book

Author

Susan Schaller

Preface by

Oliver Sacks

Publisher

University of California Press

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8x13.7x1.5 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN

0520274911

ISBN13

9780520274914

Edition No.

0002

Synopsis "a man without words"

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.

Oliver Sacks

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Oliver Wolf Sacks, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, cited as Oliver Sacks, was a British neurologist and writer of Jewish origin, fond of chemistry and a popularizer of science, especially regarding his specialty.

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