TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexander,Sally Hobart
AU  - Alexander,Robert Joseph
TI  - She touched the world: Laura Bridgman, deaf-blind pioneer 
SN  - 0618852999 (hardcover) :
AV  - HV1624.B7 A44 2008
U1  - 362.41092ASS 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Clarion Books
KW  - Bridgman, Laura Dewey,
KW  - Deafblind women
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0725/2007034978.html
ER  -