A man without words

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"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"--P. [4] of cover.

subjects: Biography,  Deaf,  Means of communication,  Mexicans,  Doven,  Sign Language,  Mexican Americans,  Rehabilitation of Hearing Impaired,  Gebarentaal,  Personal Narratives,  Hearing Impaired Persons,  North American Indians,  Mexicans, united states,  Deaf, means of communication,  Deaf, biography,  Mexico, biography,  New York Times reviewed,  Indians of North America,  Personnes sourdes,  Biographies,  Moyens de communication,  Américains d'origine mexicaine,  Deafness,  Manual Communication

People: Ildefonso

Places: United States