Laura Bridgman
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title:
Laura Bridgman
text:
Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, forty-five years before the more famous Helen Keller; Laura's friend Anne Sullivan became Helen Keller's aide. Bridgman was left deaf-blind at the age of two after contracting scarlet fever. She was educated at the Perkins Institution for the Blind where, under the direction of Samuel Gridley Howe, she learned to read and communicate using Braille and the manual alphabet dev
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American deaf-blind woman
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bridgman
date created:
2005-08-04T04:57:48Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T07:56:27Z
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