{"title":"Susan Schaller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSusan Schaller\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound insights into language, communication, and human development. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eA Man Without Words\u003c\/em\u003e, explore the depths of non-verbal understanding and the complexities of human connection beyond speech.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in education, linguistics, and the psychology of communication will find her books thought-provoking and deeply illuminating, bridging personal narrative with broader educational themes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-man-without-words-by-susan-schaller-9780520274914","title":"A Man Without Words","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSusan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Man Without Words\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595666997484,"sku":"9780520274914","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520274914-a-man-without-words.jpg?v=1777899973"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/susan-schaller.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}