A Man Without Words
2nd Edition, with new material
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520274914 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 07 Aug 2012 |
Edition: | 2nd Edition, with new material |
DEWEY: | 362.42092 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 218 |
Weight: | 274g |
Height: | 211mm |
Width: | 137mm |
Spine width: | 14mm |