A man without words
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Author
Contributions
- Sacks, Oliver W. - Contributor
Publication
1995 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Language
English
Word Count
51,000 words, Guess
Page Count
204 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveisbn_9780520202658
- ISBN-100520202651
- ISBN-139780520202658
- Goodreads943343
- Library of Congress Control Number95003438
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number31969007
- Better World Books9780520202658
- Open LibraryOL1272155M
Classifications
- DDC362.4/2/092
- DDCB
- LCCHV2534.I43 S33 1995
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. 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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