Laura bridgeman biography
Laura Bridgman – Wikipedia...
by Elizabeth Fiorite
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.
Laura bridgeman biography
The reason for this renown? Laura was the first deaf and blind person to learn to communicate with others through language.
Laura was born in 1829 in the small farming community of Hanover, N.H. When she was two years old, she became totally deaf and blind, and later, after a severe bout with scarlet fever, also lost her senses of taste and smell.
She was seven years old when she entered the Perkins Institution, where Dr. Howe personally supervised her many years of education.
Howe, a famed educational reformer, philanthropist, and, later, senator, carefully recorded Laura’s progress and published annual reports for the board of trustees for the Perkins School.
These reports were widely circulated in educational journals and newspapers acro