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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alexander, Sally Hobart
Other Authors: Alexander, Robert Joseph, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.