Seeing Voices (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Oliver Sacks
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: History, education, and psycholinguistics
- Time of Work: The eighteenth century to the 1980’s
- Setting: France and the United States
- Principal Characters: Charles-Michel, Abbe de L’Epee, Laurent Clerc, Thomas Gallaudet, Edward Gallaudet, I. King Jordan
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Language or languages, United States or Americans, France or French people, Education or educators, Social sciences, Deafness or hearing-impaired persons, Sign language, Brain
- Locales: France, United States
Hailed as one of the great modern clinical writers, Oliver Sacks has written with great compassion in his four previous books about the ways in which neurological difficulties impact on the lives of his patients. In his most recent book, Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf Sacks turns his attention to the history of the deaf and the development of the deaf community toward linguistic self-sufficiency. Sacks, a Professor of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, became interested in the problem of how deaf children acquire language after reviewing Harlan...
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