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'She knows the letters and can form sentences with words printed on cards. | 'She knows the letters and can form sentences with words printed on cards. | ||
| − | Prof. Fromkin said one of the fascinating things about Susan's development | + | Prof. Fromkin said one of the fascinating things about Susan's development was that although humans normally store speech mechanisms in the left side of the brain, Susan was using the right side of the brain. |
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| + | Prof. Fromkin said she first met Susan four months after her father's death and immediately took her on a tour of a supermarket. | ||
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| + | 'She was really stimulus hungry. She touched and smelled things and held my hand to them for feelings, colors and smells she had been denied all her life. | ||
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| + | The professor said when she offered the little girl a chocolate bar she stuffed it into her mouth and let it drain down her throat, the way she had done at home. | ||
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| + | But in a foster home with three other older children she now had lots of contact with other people, received regular physical therapy and played basketball. | ||
