Like the article on Nicaraguan Sign Language, this is only peripherally
related to conlangery, but provides new perspectives on communication.
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After seeing 27-year-old Amanda Baggs, featured in this monthıs
Wired magazine, you may rethink your views of the so-called
"normal" world. Ms. Baggs, who lives in Burlington, Vt., is
autistic and doesn't speak. But she has become an Internet
sensation as a result of an unusual video she created called
"In My Language."
For the first three minutes of the video, she rocks, flaps
her hands, waves a piece of paper, buries her face in a book
and runs her fingers repeatedly across a computer keyboard,
all while humming a haunting two-note tune.
Then, the words "A Translation" appear on the screen...
full text at
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/the-language-of-autism/
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