Martha Rinehart Seider.

As a child, I never understood why my sister Martha, who had epilepsy, couldn't talk after she had a seizure. But her language difficulty shaped my thinking from an early time. I would try to imagine where she "went" during and after a seizure. Years later, when I was looking for a major in school, I began taking speech-language ...

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