"Unaware to Her Ears": When the Storyteller Cannot Speak
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Jared Wein, a young man who is under continual nursing care in a rehabilitation facility in Philadelphia, is diagnosed as a spastic quadriplegic. He suffered a severe head injury in an automobile accident that occurred over twenty years ago and. as a consequence has very little motor control. Tbe effects of his injury are continually fascinating: most of the damage was to his left brain, and consequently it is the right side of his body and those left brain-oriented activities that arc most impaired. His right brain seems to function as if it were intact: he remains creative and sensitive. He can remember and recognize people from both his present and his past, and is continually constructing fantasy worlds and possibilities for himself, while he is often unable to remember simple mathematical functions or even what year it is. Though he is able vocalize at will he cannot talk, and communicates by pointing to letters writlcn on a board or else by typing messages on an electronic communicator. And though the only limb he has control over is his left arm, Jared is able to express his needs and desires in a way that is both articulate and inventive.
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