When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf Harlan Lane
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Do your voices happen all the While voice hearing is linked with a range of different psychiatric conditions (including many non-psychotic ones), many people with no history of mental health problems hear voices. May 15, 2013 - However, the precise methods they employed in early efforts to play back their recordings are lost to history. At the same time, Sylvia is going deaf, and as she loses her ability to speak clearly and hear others, her community shrinks. Dec 24, 2013 - When a child hears the story of Abraham arguing with G‑d over the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, he most certainly imagines the two standing face to face, as a man argues with a close friend. Congratulations to all the cast, crew and directors of TRIBES on a wonderful production that opened each audience member's mind, heart, and thoughts to a new community of people. When he reads that G‑d smote Egypt with an outstretched .. Jun 21, 2013 - Recounting her own miraculous blossoming from the inner captivity of a deaf-mute to the intellectual height of a cultural luminary, she brings exquisite earnestness to this rhetorical question: in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts, “the source and centre of all minds, their only point of rest.”. For a fascinating discussion of the transformation effected by the acquisition of language and a history of the deaf learning to speak, see Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices, ch. Eager to hear reflections and connections made in the comments section below. Aug 8, 2013 - At a recent conference, I heard a really extraordinary fact: that people who've been deaf from birth don't hear voices, but see hands signing at them. It's also widely voices, medication-free. As a result I heard, too, the deliberate enunciation of a devoted husband whose deaf wife, Mabel, was dependent on lip reading.