A Man Without Words

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By Susan Schaller

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A Man Without Words recounts Susan Schaller's extraordinary journey with Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian born deaf and isolated without language. Overcoming immense challenges, Schaller brings Ildefonso to an understanding of words, revealing the profound impact of language on the human mind.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in education, linguistics, deaf culture, and human psychology. It appeals to those fascinated by language acquisition and personal transformation stories.

Originally published: New York: Summit Books, 1991.

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. This second edition includes a new chapter and afterword.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520274914

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Edition: 2nd edition

Contributors:

Foreword by Oliver Sacks
Foreword by Oliver Sacks
Foreword by Oliver Sacks

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 272g

Pages: 220

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Susan Schaller

About the Author

Susan Schaller is a teacher of American Sign Language affiliated with the World Federation of the Deaf and the founder of In the Name of Deaf Adults (NaDA). Oliver Sacks is a physician, best-selling author and professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. He has written ten books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.