[stylist] Laura Bridgeman

[helene ryles]

There is quite a bit about her on line as well.  She also had a friend
who used to take her everywhere with him and show her things. So did
Helen Keller for that matter. Somehow these early childhood friends
don't seem to get a word in despite the fact that they probably paved
the way for further learning. In fact Helen Keller had learnt several
home made signs before Anne Sullivan got to her. Since I'm writing
about deaf blindness I did quite a bit of research on Helen Keller and
Laura Bradman plus any other deafblind person I could come across.
Unfortunately there has not been too many.  Either they are not
highlighted so much or at all. There seem VERY few adult deafblind who
achieve that have been deafblind since early child hood. They usually
born deaf/hard of hearing, blind/partially sighted or fully hearing
and sighted and lose the rest later on.

Helene.

On 14/11/2008, Angela fowler <fowlers at syix.com> wrote:
> Thank you, Robert, I think I'll do that.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Robert Jaquiss
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:11 AM
> To: NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Laura Bridgeman
>
> Hello:
>
>      In recent years, there were two books published about Laura Bridgeman
> and they are available through NLS. One title is the Imprisoned Guest. You
> could also go to the NFB site and do a search on her. I am reasonably sure
> the Braille Monitor has articles on her.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert Jaquiss
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
> To: "'NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 10:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Laura Bridgeman
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>
>> Thank you, Barbara.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:09 AM
>> To: stylist
>> Subject: [stylist] Laura Bridgeman
>>
>> Laura Bridgeman was born in New Hampshire in 1829.  She was a vey sickly
>> child and at the age of three contracted scarlet fever which left her
>> deaf,
>> blind and with no sense of smell.  Near the age of ten she went to the
>> Perkins School where she essentially learned language in an afternoon.
>> Samuel would show her an object and run her fingers over the word.  I'm
>> guessing then it was raised print.  She learned to pair words with
>> objects,
>> then spell words.  I think it said that after a year of growing her
>> vocabulary she learned that she could express her own thoughts.  I forgot,
>> after she learned how to spell the words with letters, Samuel introduced
>> her
>> to finger spelling.
>> That's what I found out in about ten minutes.  If I had more time I may
>> look
>> her up and see what became of her as an adult.
>> Barbara
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