Barry Prazant
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25,090 appearances
143 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2020
last heard 31 Jul
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diagnosed when he was young and he did not begin speaking till he was eleven.
He did not become literate until he was eighteen.
And now he is a full distinguished professor at Cambridge University in England and he's a fluent speaker.
Um and you could see him on some interviews that are on YouTube.
I'd never heard about him.
And this uh this person who I spoke with, um her name is Susan, whatever.
Uh and she uh is coming out with an article about him in the New York Times in August.
Um and and so there are individual examples of people not only just taking in so much of the world and learning and then learning to commu to express that knowledge that they have, but there are extreme examples like that.
And what Jason says was his mom in particular was always very good at pointing things about the world out to him and speaking.
speaking with him about everything and narrating and describing, and he said I was just
absorbing it like a sponge.
I just couldn't speak.
Uh fascinating.
So anyway, I'd I'd I'd like our listeners to know, yes, these are wonderful misunderstandings that we're trying to get straight here, but
We also touched on a number of topics that are actually embedded into the issue.
Um, but let's get right back to the issue now, okay?
And uh we could be even a little bit more specific.
So we could do some turntaking here.
And Jen and Amy, would you like to share what you know some of
the aha moments for you that came out of reading some of the articles.
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