After a brief period in a public classroom being alternately ignored or pitied, Grania is sent away to a progressive school for the deaf, where she cries for two weks and then resolves never to cry again. The training is difficult, but Grania’s grandmother provided a good foundation. “Her hands, to her surprise, and jerkily at first, begin to send ideas out,” Itani writes. “Her face and body punctuate; her eyes receive. She is falling into, she is entering a new world. She is joining the larger conversation of hands.”

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Grania在公立學校的課堂里短暫地呆過一段，在那里，她不是受人忽視，就是招人憐憫。此后她被送到聾啞學校，她在那里哭了兩個星期，然后就再未哭過，訓練很艱苦，但Grania的祖母給她打下了一個好的基礎。“出乎她的意料，她的雙手，開始能夠傳遞信息了，盡管起初是笨拙僵硬的”。Itani寫道“她的臉和身體停止了動作，只有眼睛在接受信息，她已沉浸其中，進入了一個新的世界，她開始參與人們用許多雙手進行的交談”。