Developing language

Oliver Sacks" book Seeing Voices (1989) is a fascinating enquiry into how people who are deaf from birth cope with the world, and in particular, how they develop and handle language. As usual with Sacks" writing, we are asked to expand our understanding of how the human mind is capable of extraordinary adaption to extraordinary circumstances, and the book is particularly revealing about the nature of sign languages,...

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