[stylist] Laura Bridgeman

[slery]

There is a really great book written about her life.  I highly recommend
reading it.  I read it as a child so it was in print.  Hopefully, there is
an accessible version.  It is written as a memoir instead of a biography.

Cindy

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> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:09 AM
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> Subject: [stylist] Laura Bridgeman
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> 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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