Stories
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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The shifting shape of language
Author Jessica Andrews explores how her brother’s deafness has influenced her relationship with words and the world.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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Wonder years
The confusion and secrecy surrounding his condition seriously affected Chris’s mental health, blighting his teenage years. But somehow he began to hope and plan for the future.
Catalogue
- Books
Language of the mentally retarded / edited by Richard L. Schiefelbusch.
Date: [1972], ©1972- Books
Language, music, and the brain : a mysterious relationship / edited by Michael A. Arbib.
Date: [2013]- Books
- Online
The bilingual child : early development and language contact / Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews.
Yip, Virginia, 1962-Date: 2007- Books
- Online
Development with a body : sexuality, human rights and development / Andrea Cornwall, Sonia Corrêa and Susie Jolly, editors.
Date: 2008- Books
Encouraging language development / Phyllis Hastings and Bessie Hayes.
Hastings, Phyllis, 1913-Date: [1981], ©1981