She touched the world :
Alexander, Sally Hobart.
She touched the world : Laura Bridgman, deaf-blind pioneer / by Sally Hobart Alexander and Robert Alexander. - New York : Clarion Books, c2008. - xi, 100 p. : ill., map, 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-96) and index.
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.
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 eventually even to teach.
A Junior Library Guild selection
0618852999 (hardcover) : $18.00 9780618852994 (hardcover) : $18.00
Junior Library Guild http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com
2007034978
Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889 --Juvenile literature.
Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889.
Deafblind women--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Deafblind women--United States--Biography.
HV1624.B7 / A44 2008
362.41092 ASS
She touched the world : Laura Bridgman, deaf-blind pioneer / by Sally Hobart Alexander and Robert Alexander. - New York : Clarion Books, c2008. - xi, 100 p. : ill., map, 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-96) and index.
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.
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 eventually even to teach.
A Junior Library Guild selection
0618852999 (hardcover) : $18.00 9780618852994 (hardcover) : $18.00
Junior Library Guild http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com
2007034978
Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889 --Juvenile literature.
Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889.
Deafblind women--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Deafblind women--United States--Biography.
HV1624.B7 / A44 2008
362.41092 ASS