I can hear you whisper : an intimate journey through the science of sound and language /

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Author / Creator:	Denworth, Lydia, 1966- author.
Imprint:	New York : Dutton, [2014]
Description:	viii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Denworth, Lydia, -- 1966- Denworth, Alex -- Health. Denworth, Lydia, -- 1966- Cochlear implants. Deaf children -- Rehabilitation. Language acquisition -- Parent participation. Cochlear Implants -- Personal Narratives. Cochlear implants. Deaf children -- Rehabilitation. Health. Language acquisition -- Parent participation.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10094746

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ISBN:	9780525953791 (hardback) 0525953795 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-368) and index.
Summary:	"An investigation into the science of hearing, child language acquisition, neuroplasticity, brain development, and Deaf culture spurred by Lydia Denworth's discovery that her son couldn't hear her lullabies and the family's life-altering decision to give him a cochlear implant. 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. "--

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Quiet
1. The Cow and the Red Balloon
2. A New World
3. How Loud Is a Whisper?
4. A Stream of Sound
5. "Some Means of Instructing"
6. "Marvelous Mechanism"
7. Word by Word
8. The Hub
9. Pride
10. Language in the Brain
11. What if the Blind Could See?
12. Critical Bandwidths
13. Surgery
Part 2. Sound
14. Flipping the Switch
15. A Perfect Storm
16. A Cascade of Responses
17. Success&excl;
18. The Search For Evidence
19. A Parts List of the Mind
20. A Road Map of Plasticity
21. "I Can't Talk&excl;"
22. The Reading Brain
23. Deaf Like Me
24. The Cocktail Party Problem
25. Beethoven's Nightmare
26. Walk Beside Me
27. Frog in Hong Kong
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

I can hear you whisper : an intimate journey through the science of sound and language /

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