I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language

“A skilled science translator, Denworth makes decibels, teslas and brain plasticity understandable to all.”—Washington Post

Lydia Denworth’s third son, Alex, was nearly two when he was identified with significant hearing loss that was likely to get worse. Denworth knew the importance of enrichment to the developing brain but had never contemplated the opposite: deprivation. How would a child’s brain grow outside the world of sound? How would he communicate? Would he learn to read and write?

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