She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer

"In the early 1800s people who were 'just' deaf or 'just' blind were considered impossible to educate." So it was especially remarkable that Laura Bridgman, deaf and blind from age two, was recognized as having great promise to learn. She left home to attend the first American school for blind children; by the age of twelve she had become so famous that Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin wrote about her and people came from all over the world to see her. Introduction. Afterword. Source notes. Bibliography. Web sites. Index. Black-and-white photographs.