Linguist, author and university professor Noam Chomsky explores the question of what happens when a child is deprived of exposure to language. If such deprivation is part of a larger problem, such as lack of contact with others, the non-acquisition ...
Helen Keller, who was both blind and deaf, said that to her deafness was more bothersome than blindness. Her blindness, she said, kept her from things; deafness separated her from people. For David Myers who is on a trajectory toward complete deafne...