She touched the world : Laura Bridgman, deaf-blind pioneer /
When she was just two years old, Laura Bridgman lost her sight, her hearing, and most of her senses of smell and taste. But then a progressive doctor, who had just opened the country's first school for the blind in Boston, took her in. Laura learned to communicate, read, and write--and eventual...
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New York :
Clarion Books,
[2008]
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Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Important people in Laura Bridgman's life
- Introduction
- A delicate plant
- In touch
- Friends and frustrations
- "A very unusually tall [man]"
- Taken away
- What can Laura do?
- Words! words! words!
- Schoolgirl
- Windows open
- Weapon or masterpiece?
- "Is God ever surprised?"
- Famous
- Farewells
- Afterword: if Laura were alive today.