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Hace 6 días · 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.
Hace 5 días · Laura Bridgman (1829-1889) was a predecessor of Keller's at Perkins. She became deafblind at the age of two from scarlet fever. She was a friend of Sullivan's while they were both students at Perkins. When the author Charles Dickens visited Perkins once, he met her and was greatly impressed, writing about her and making her famous.
11 de may. de 2024 · Laura Dewey Bridgman was born over 100 miles northwest of Boston in the green and woodsy area of Hanover in New Hampshire on Dec. 21, 1829, to Harmony and Daniel Bridgman. The family had welcomed two daughters before Laura, who was born frail and unwell; she suffered convulsions for the first months of her life.
17 de may. de 2024 · La joven sordociega norteamericana Helen Keller se hizo mundialmente famosa por la película “El milagro de Anne Sullivan”, de 1962, ganadora de varios premios Óscar, que relata la historia ...
14 de may. de 2024 · Perkins pioneered education for people who are deafblind when seven-year-old Laura Bridgman became the first deafblind person to learn language, in 1837. Fifty years later, alumna Annie Sullivan used the
5 de may. de 2024 · Laura Bridgman... metal. It was so amusing to my little heart & head. to accumulate many things. for pleasant occupations. it was so joyful for me to do many different sorts in my early days.
16 de may. de 2024 · Called “Helen Keller before Helen Keller,” Laura Bridgman was a blind and deaf woman educated as part of a physician’s experiment in the 1840s. She rattled the bars of her scientific cage, demonstrating a crucial (yet still debated) truth: the innate humanity of the disabled.
