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A man without words

by Susan Schaller, 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.

Accession 20083 ISBN 0520202651 Publisher University of California Press
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