My admiration for Dr. Geissmar--for her masterful management skills, her courage, her elegant command of English (certainly her second language), her resilience, and her touching devotion to each of these larger-than-life conductors knows no bounds.
"It became clear to me that many children – even those younger than five – have to deal with complex problems without the emotional resilience, language or confidence to ask for help.
"It became clear to me that many children - even those younger than five - have to deal with complex problems without the emotional resilience, language or confidence to ask for help.
At the same time, it is profoundly reassuring that participants who had access to the buffers of culture and language exhibited increased resilience.
Goldin-Meadow, S. The resilience of language: What gesture creation in deaf children can tell us about how all children learn language.
Thus is the resilience of language and by association, human nature.
The country's vulnerability arises not so much from the damage terrorists will cause but from American society's self-defeating inability to see such violence in perspective and to find leadership and language to define national resilience.
Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadowillll deliver this year's Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture, in which she will explore the resilience of language and gesture in the way people communicate.
Goldin-Meadow, who joined the UChicago faculty in 1976, is author of The Resilience of Language: What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language, and Hearing Gesture: How Our Hands Help Us Think.
For instance, if they're going to a coach because they're having extreme work-life challenges, they relate better and are motivated and inspired more by an individual who's personally dealt with and overcome those same issues, and can speak the intimate, personal language of challenge and resilience when it comes to this particular area.
