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An investigation into the science of hearing, child language acquisition, neuroplasticity, brain development, and Deaf culture. A mother notices her toddler is not learning to talk the way his brothers did ... Is something wrong? Her search for answers is a journey into the mysteries of the human brain.Lydia Denworth's third son, Alex, was nearly two when he was identified with significant hearing loss that was likely to get worse. Her sweet boy with the big brown eyes had probably never heard her lullabies.Denworth knew the importance of enrichment to the developing brain but had never contemplated the opposite: Deprivation. How would a child's brain grow outside the world of sound most of us take for granted? How would he communicate? Would he learn to read and write - weren't phonics a key to literacy? How long did they have until Alex's brain changed irrevocably? In her drive to understand the choices - starting with the angry debate between supporters of American Sign Language and the controversial but revolutionary cochlear implant - Denworth soon found that every decision carried weighty scientific, social and even political implications.



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