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Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, twenty years before the more famous Helen Keller; Laura's friend Anne Sullivan became Helen Keller's aide.
May 20, 2024 · Laura Dewey Bridgman (born December 21, 1829, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.—died May 24, 1889, Boston, Massachusetts) was the first blind and deaf person in the English-speaking world to learn to communicate using finger spelling and the written word.
Laura Dewey Bridgman was the first student with deafblindness to be formally educated. She and Perkins' founding Director Samuel Gridley Howe became world famous for this achievement. Laura Dewey Bridgman was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on December 21, 1829, to hardworking New England farmers.
In the mid-nineteenth century, Laura Bridgman, a young child fromNew Hampshire, became one of the most famous women in the world.Philosophers, theologians, and ...
Nov 7, 2016 · Helen Keller is arguably history’s most recognizable woman with a disability—a figure whose education allowed her to overcome being blind, deaf, and mute. But before Helen Keller, there was Laura Bridgman, the first blind and deaf woman who learned to communicate through language.
Mar 2, 2017 · Laura Bridgman was the most famous woman of her day, second only to Queen Victoria, according to her teacher, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, director of the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston. The reason for this renown?
May 31, 2014 · Laura Bridgman was 50 years older and heralded around the world for learning language after losing four of her five senses as a child to scarlet fever.
