Posthumous Impact
In 1982, Deacon's story was the subject of a paper by D. Ellis in the journal Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, describing how after fifty years' residence in an institution for the mentally handicapped, a new strategy was devised by which Deacon's intelligence could be assessed; the strategy showed that he had a normal level of intelligence.
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