“A beautiful and meticulous study of a languageless man and of Schaller’s patient, dedicated and brilliantly conceived efforts to make contact with him and to introduce him to language.” -from the forward by Oliver Sacks“Behind this moving story lies a quiet challenge to much current thinking (including my own) about language and language learning.” - Roger Shattuck, The Forbidden Experiment
“… is as gripping as a novel, .. and [concerns] one of the great scientific questions of all time.” -Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct
“The best book on a normal language-less person…”, Animals In Translation by Temple Grandin
For first edition or British hardback, as well as: Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Dutch and Russian, write (susan@susanschaller . com)
Becoming:
"I'm Listening, James Castle, Keep Talking" (soon, at conversations.org)
Helen Keller's Mirror,
Finding Self Without Language (Copyright 2010)
