How do you care for someone you struggle to communicate with … and can never fully understand? That's the question anthropologist Danilyn Rutherford has been wrestling with for decades — ever since it became clear that her daughter Millie would never speak, sign or use symbols to express herself.
Danilyn talks with host Anita Rao about mothering a multiply-disabled child and how her relationship with Millie has challenged her beliefs about the importance of language for human connection.
Danilyn Rutherford is the author of “Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World.”
