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Life And Education of Laura Dewey Bridgeman: The Deaf, Dumb And Blind Girl | 
 enlarge | Author: Mary Swift Lamson
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 891658
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 424
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 141795387X
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9781417953875
ASIN: 141795387X
Publication Date: March 30, 2005
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Before Helen Keller There Was Laura Bridgeman February 14, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When you ask most children who was the deaf and blind girl that communicated by feeling people's hands as they signed? Most will answer Helen Keller. But before Helen Keller there was Laura Bridgeman
This book tells about the life of Helen Keller's Predecessor Laura Bridgeman. I didn't know that before Helen Keller became famous Laura Bridgeman had been famous 50 years earlier. This book describes the work of Laura's teacher who founded the Perkins School For the Blind to educate the blind and the deaf- blind. Other deaf-blind students besides Laura were also educated at the school. In fact Helen Keller's teacher used some of the same methods to teach Helen and consulted Laura Bridgeman before she took on the task. A quote by Helen Keller herself at the end of the book credits Laura Brideman with the advancement of education for the deaf-blind. The book also mentions other famous deaf-blind people of the time such as Keller's other predecessor Julia Brace. However be prepared for Laura's teacher to have some weird old fashioned scientific ideas regarding humans and the brain. A few of his methods are unethical today. Some parts of the book are controversal and difficult to understand but it is overall a good book.
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