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S09E05: Finding a Voice

NOVA · Season 9
Aired 07 Feb 1982 at 1:00am (UTC)

Synopsis

What is it like not to be able to communicate with others? NOVA explores the severest of speech disabilities with Dick Boydell—born with cerebral palsy, confined to a wheelchair and unable for 30 years to say more than "yes" or "no" and investigates some of the new technology that gives the speechless a "voice."

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