A Man Without Words

by Schaller, Susan

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Title Statements

Full title :A Man Without Words / Susan Schaller.

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. The book 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2014
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Berkeley, CA
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (220 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0520959310, 9780520959316, 0520274911, 9780520274914
DOI:10.1525/9780520959316.
oclc:on1203065698
LC Classification:HV2534.I43
Dewey Decimal:220

Subjects

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