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
Human-narrated audio
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.