Laura Bridgman (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781022475793)

Bridgman was the first deafblind person to be successfully educated using tactile sign language, and this biography by Howe offers valuable insights into her life and accomplishments. Drawing upon Bridgman's own writings and contemporary accounts, Howe documents Bridgman's early childhood, her education with Samuel Gridley Howe at the Perkins Institution for the Blind, and her later years as a teacher and advocate for the deafblind community.

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