Today, December 21, 2021, would have been Laura Bridgeman’s 192nd birthday. Laura Bridgeman was both blind and deaf. She the first deafblind students to be educated at Perkins School for the Blind by Samuel Gridley Howe.
Reference:
McGinnity, B.L., Seymour-Ford, J. and Andries, K.J. (2004) Laura Bridgman. Perkins History Museum, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA.
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