"The Writer Who Couldn't Read" NPR 6/21/10
A truly amazing story. After a stroke, Howard Engel, a detective-novel author, was faced with a real mystery. Although he could write, he was no longer able to read. How he retrained himself to do so is both a strong argument for multi-sensory teaching methods and a paean to what the fantastic NPR science reporter Robert Krulwich calls "the incredible plasticity of the human brain." After you listen to Krulwich's Morning Edition piece, watch the wonderful animated video he made about it with Engel and San Francisco artist Lev Yilmaz.
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