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Learning A Language For The First Time At Six Years Old
Learning A Language For The First Time At Six Years Old
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Dec 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Mahbuba, a refugee from Afghanistan, didn’t have a way to communicate for the first six years of her life. Expressing herself as a deaf child was difficult. With no access to education in rural Afghanistan as a deaf girl, she didn’t experience language education until coming to Chicago.
Reset talks with author and freelance journalist Elly Fishman who covered Mahbuba’s story.
If you want to hear more stories like this, check out our full catalog of interviews at wbez.org/reset.
Reset talks with author and freelance journalist Elly Fishman who covered Mahbuba’s story.
If you want to hear more stories like this, check out our full catalog of interviews at wbez.org/reset.
Released:
Dec 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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