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Wight left the Perkins School in November 1850, having spent five years as Bridgman's teacher and companion. [ 40 ] Wight was engaged to a Unitarian missionary, George Bond, and following their marriage, the couple planned to travel to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). [ 41 ]
In 1837 Bridgman entered the New-England Institution for the Education of the Blind (later known as the Perkins School for the Blind) in Boston, Massachusetts, where she lived for the remainder of her life.
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No one had succeeded in teaching language to someone who was deafblind, and Howe was now faced with creating a method of education. Instead of expanding upon Bridgman’s natural sign language, he decided to teach her English. He gave her familiar objects, such as forks and keys, with name labels made of raised letters pasted upon them. When he gave ...
Howe published the account of Bridgman’s education in the Perkins Annual Reports, making both teacher and student internationally famous. In 1842, British writer Charles Dickens visited Perkins and wrote of his encounter with Bridgman in his book, American Notes.Dickens described the twelve-year-old girl in sentimental terms, dwelling upon her inno...
Bridgman’s instruction at Perkins ended in 1850 when she was 20, and she returned to New Hampshire to be with her family. After years of being with a constant teacher companion, Bridgman was suddenly on her own day and night, and her busy farming family had little time for her. Her health began to deteriorate, and Howe realized that Bridgman should...
McGinnity, B.L., Seymour-Ford, J. and Andries, K.J. (2004) Laura Bridgman. Perkins History Museum, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA.
Sep 15, 2014 · Bridgman began her education in 1837 at the recently established Perkins School for the Blind. Samuel Gridley Howe, the first director, had developed an embossed version of the alphabet as a tool for teaching language to the blind.
May 1, 2014 · Born in 1829 on a rural farm in Hanover, New Hampshire, she was, by her mother’s account, a lively, intelligent, extremely curious child who had at 18 months begun to “talk quite plain” and...
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Jul 18, 2017 · Samuel Gridley Howe published the account of Laura Bridgman’s education in the Perkins Annual Reports, making both teacher and student internationally famous. In 1842, British writer Charles Dickens visited Perkins and wrote of his encounter with Laura in his book, American Notes.
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History. 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 ...
