The education of Laura Bridgman: first deaf and blind person to learn language
Biography of persons with disabilities, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Women biography, Disabilities, Blindness and visual impairment
Summary
Chronicles the life of Laura Bridgman, who, born into a New Hampshire farm family in 1829, became deaf and blind at the age of two. Freeberg recounts Laura's transformation into a woman who voraciously absorbed the world around her under… the tutelage of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. 2001.
Title Details
ISBN
9780674005891
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Copyright Date
2001
Book number
2423499
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Madelyn Buzzard
Duration
11 hours 11 minutes 26 seconds
Audio producer
Library of Congress, NLS/BPH (Louisville, Ky. : American Printing House for the Blind), 2001.