A man without words

by Schaller, Susan

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Title Statements

Full title :A man without words / Susan Schaller ; foreword by Oliver Sacks.

Summary

"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"--Page 4 of cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012
Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Berkeley, California
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012

Notes

"Second edition with new material."

The Physical Object

Description:218 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780520274914, 0520274911
oclc:ocn809554204
LC Classification:HV2534.I43
Dewey Decimal:362.4/2/092

Subjects

Biographies Deaf Deaf -- Biography. -- United States Deaf -- Means of communication Deaf -- Means of communication -- Unite… Ildefonso Mexicans Mexicans -- Biography. -- United States Nonfiction Personnes sourdes -- Biographies. -- Ét… Personnes sourdes -- Moyens de communic… United States