I Can Hear You Whisper : An Intimate Journey Through the Science of Sound and Language Hardcover - 2014 - 1st Edition
by Denworth, Lydia
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- Title I Can Hear You Whisper : An Intimate Journey Through the Science of Sound and Language
- Author Denworth, Lydia
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 390
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, Qg7
- Date 2014-04-17
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP102293461
- ISBN 9780525953791 / 0525953795
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 1.4 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 3.56 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Language acquisition - Parent participation, Cochlear implants
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013032769
- Dewey Decimal Code 617.89
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Summary
Lydia Denworth’s third son, Alex, was almost two when he was diagnosed with profound and progressive hearing loss. As both a science writer and the mother of young children, Denworth was steeped in messages about the importance of enrichment to the developing brain. She became determined to do whatever it took to allow Alex to hear and acquire spoken language, a quest that ultimately led to a controversial piece of emergent “superhero technology”: the cochlear implant.
In this engrossing journey to the frontiers of science, readers will learn why sound is so important to the developing brain, what new possibilities come from the latest research, and what exactly is going on when you focus your hearing at a cocktail party. Denworth goes beyond her personal experience with her son, interviewing the world’s leading experts on child language development and hearing technology, leaders in the deaf community, and neuroscientists.
I Can Hear You Whisper weaves together Alex’s story with the tales of two scientific revolutions: the centuries-long quest to develop the cochlear implant and science’s changing understanding of the brain’s remarkable plasticity—all told against the sometimes-incendiary backdrop of identity politics and medical ethics.
