She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer (Hardcover)

from jmitra1

She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer is an excellent biography that will keep readers engaged. The writing is factual and accurate, but not dry at all. In fact, the story is full of pep. The images in color and black and white are era-appropriate, and really give an immersive...

from Sheila1957

Laura Bridgman lost her sight and hearing at the age of 2. She was curious and frustrated lost in herself. Dr. Samuel Howe heard of her and came to see if he could help her. He took her back to the Perkins Institute where he taught her to read and write. He taught her fingerspelling and reading b...

from shillson

She Touched the World chronicles the life of Laura Bridgman, who, at the age of three, contracted scarlet fever and became both deaf and blind. She had also lost her sense of smell and much of her sense of taste. Relying on her sense of touch alone, Laura Bridgman learned to communicate at the Ne...

from ARQuay

While most have heard the story of Helen Keller, America's most famous deaf-blind figure, very few of us know of Laura Bridgman, also deaf-blind, who proceeded Ms. Keller by about fifty years. While she was alive, Ms. Bridgman's ability and desire to learn was an inspiration to people throughout ...

from abbylibrarian

You know about Helen Keller, but have you ever heard of Laura Bridgman? Laura Bridgman was born just about 50 years before Helen Keller. When she was a young child, she had scarlet fever, a disease that robbed her of her hearing, sight, and most of her senses of smell and taste. Laura was an inte...