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It was after being sent to Queensmill School in London at age five that Stephen demonstrated a keen interest in art. Seeing his passion for drawing gave his teachers an idea: they speculated that perhaps if they took away the materials he used, Stephen might be motivated to speak in an attempt to reclaim them. The teachers' hopes were not disappointed; after a few unintelligible sounds, Steven clearly told them what was on his mind: "paper." After that first word, his vocabulary continued to increase, and by the time he was nine years old, he was fully verbal.

Watch Stephen draw a panorama of New York City ...