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

This work chronicles the process of teaching a twenty-seven-year-old Mexican man, born deaf and without any previous language, to communicate for the first time. It explores the cognitive transition from total isolation to the comprehension of sign language.
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