Finding My Voice, Laura Pegram Interviews Neela Vaswani

Laura Pegram

August 28, 2013

The little girl Jamie is severely autistic in the story and so she’s learning it to help her with communication. I read about severely autistic kids and bonobo chimpanzees learning to communicate through Yerkish in one of the Sue Savage-Rumbaugh books.

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