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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...
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  • Bridgman (1847–1928), American artist George Bridgman (1865–1943), anatomist and artist Jon Bridgman (1930–2015), American historian Laura Bridgman (1829–1889)...
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  • SS Laura Bridgman was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Laura Bridgman, the first deaf-blind American...
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    estimated 35,000–40,000 United States residents were medically deafblind. Laura Bridgman was the first American deafblind person known to become well educated...
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    famous deaf-blind pupil Laura Bridgman. Her mother Julia Ward Howe wrote the words to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". In 1871, Laura married Henry Richards...
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  • Isabel Greeley as its first matron. This property was home to both Laura Bridgman and Helen Keller. The school moved to its present campus, in Watertown...
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    account in Charles Dickens' American Notes of the successful education of Laura Bridgman, a deaf and blind woman, dispatched the young Keller and her father...
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    Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind where Dickens encountered Laura Bridgman, who impressed him greatly. On 3 January 1842, one month shy of his...
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  • Victorine Morriseau (1789–1832) successfully learned French as a child. Laura Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) was the first deaf-blind American...
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    Percy Williams Bridgman (April 21, 1882 – August 20, 1961) was an American physicist who received the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics...
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    1955 Professional Father Kit Wilson 18 episodes 1956 Telephone Time Laura Bridgman Episode "The Key" 1957 Father Knows Best Mara Episode: "The Spelling...
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    made progress with her learning. While at Perkins, Sullivan befriended Laura Bridgman, a graduate of Perkins and the first blind and deaf person to have been...
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  • young boy, in an etching by J.T. Smith in 1816. Oliver Caswell and Laura Bridgman reading embossed letters from a book. A Lithograph made by W Sharp in...
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    of 1889, Kåta met with Mary Swift Lamson (1822–1909) who had taught Laura Bridgman at the Perkins School for the Blind. At that time, Lamson reported that...
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    Dickens's description in American Notes (1842) of the deaf and blind girl Laura Bridgman, whom he saw on a visit to the Perkins Institution for the Blind in...
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  • as a teacher of Laura Bridgman, at the Perkins Institute for the Blind. She wrote the book Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman, the Deaf, Dumb...
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    director in 1876, she also took on greater responsibilities at the school. Laura Bridgman, her father's deaf-blind student, took particular interest in young...
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  • v t e Helen Keller Life history Ivy Green Tuscumbia, Alabama Laura Bridgman Alexander Graham Bell Charles W. Adams Schools attended Perkins School for...
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    as Heurtin who had been born without sight or hearing. Stories about Laura Bridgman, Helen Keller, and Heurtin proved these children could be taught successfully...
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  • Warner Brace (1901–1978), writer, educator, sailor, boat builder Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (1829 - 1889), the first deaf-blind American to gain a significant...
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    Sitka (APA-113) Liberty ships operated: George A. Pope George B. Porter Laura Bridgman Joe Fellows John Roach Ada Rehan Allen C. Balch Charles A. McCue Charles...
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  • schools in Argentina Mary Swift Lamson and Sarah Wight, teachers of Laura Bridgman at the Perkins Institute for the Blind Paul J. LeBlanc, President of...
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  • early American DeafBlind student at the Hartford School for the Deaf Laura Bridgman, (1829–1889), American, first DeafBlind student of Dr. Samuel Howe at...
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    School for the Blind, began instructing the seven-year-old deafblind Laura Bridgman after meeting Brace during a visit to the Hartford school around 1837...
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    the first circulating library in Braille.: 29  In 1837, Howe admitted Laura Bridgman, a young deaf-blind girl who later became a teacher at the school. She...
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    deafblind. In 1890 he published a psychological study about the deafblind Laura Bridgman. He is regarded as the discoverer of the literary talent of the deaf-blind...
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    "Letter on Anglican and Gallican Liberty" a paper on the vocal sounds of Laura Bridgman, the blind deaf mute, compared with the elements of phonetic language...
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  • Hold (1994) and On My Own (1997), and a young readers' biography of Laura Bridgman. Alexander teaches literature and writing in the Chatham University...
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    the system of teaching the blind and deaf. He studied the success of Laura Bridgman, a former student of the Perkins School for the Blind. This contributed...
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  • Justice in Progressive Era Chicago 2001—Ernest Freeberg, The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language 1999—Marilyn C. Baseler...
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