Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, forty-five years before the more famous Helen Keller; Bridgman’s friend Anne Sullivan became Helen Keller's aide.

Dec 17, 2024 · Laura Dewey Bridgman (born December 21, 1829, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.—died May 24, 1889, Boston, Massachusetts) was the first blind and deaf person in the English-speaking world to learn to communicate using finger spelling and the written word.

Laura Dewey Bridgman was the first student with deafblindness to be formally educated. She and Perkins' founding Director Samuel Gridley Howe became world famous for this achievement. Laura Dewey Bridgman was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on December 21, 1829, to hardworking New England farmers.

Laura Bridgman was the most famous woman of her day, second only to Queen Victoria, according to her teacher, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, director of the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston. The reason for this renown?

Nov 4, 2011 · Today I found out about a woman who lost the ability to smell, taste, see, and hear as a child, but went on to become the first deaf-blind person to be fully educated. The woman was Laura Bridgman. Bridgman was born in 1829 and it is …

Nov 7, 2016 · Helen Keller is arguably history’s most recognizable woman with a disability—a figure whose education allowed her to overcome being blind, deaf, and mute. But before Helen Keller, there was Laura Bridgman, the first blind and deaf woman who learned to communicate through language. Bridgman may be less known, but her life was just as compelling.

Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman was born on December 21, 1829, in Hanover, New Hampshire, to a poor Baptist farmer named Daniel Bridgman and his wife, Harmony. As an infant, she was a frail and sickly child, but by the age of two, Laura had developed normally without any …

On May 24, 1889, Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman died at the age 59 years. Bridgman has been remembered for being someone who touched souls worldwide by her resilient ability to overcome the obstacles in life.

First deaf and blind person successfully educated, who paved the way for other disadvantaged people and whose fame spread across America and Europe .

Sep 15, 2014 · Before the remarkable accomplishments of Helen Keller, there was Laura Dewey Bridgman (1829-1889), a deaf and blind woman from New Hampshire, who amazed educators and the American public with her exceptional achievements in language and education.