勞拉·杜威·林恩·布里奇曼（Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman，）被稱為美國第一位接受英語語言教育的盲聾兒童，比著名的海倫·凱勒早了50年。布里奇曼因感染猩红热在兩歲時失明。她到柏金斯啟明學校接受教育，在（Samuel Gridley Howe）指導下，她學會以盲文和（Charles-Michel de l'Épée）開發的手語字母表閱讀和交流。
查爾斯·狄更斯在1842年美國遊歷期間遇到了布里奇曼，並在《美國紀行》中記錄她的成就，讓布里奇曼成為了名人。但是名氣只是曇花一現，她的餘生在默默無聞中度過，大部分時間都待在柏金斯學校，透過縫紉和閱讀盲文打發時間。
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傳承
布里奇曼在年輕時就作為聾啞人的教育典範而聞名。海倫·凱勒的母親凱特·凱勒受到狄更斯在《美國紀行》的記述啟發，在徵求意見之後，她聘請了柏金斯學校的老師，同時也是校友的安·蘇利文。蘇利文曾在柏金斯學校學習過手語字母表，她把這些字母知識和穿著布里奇曼親手縫製的衣服的娃娃一道帶給海倫。
在安德烈·紀德的《田園交響曲》中有提及布里奇曼的境遇。
自由輪「」便是以她的名字命名。
參見
- 海倫·凱勒
延伸閲讀
- Elliott, Maud Howe and Florence Howe Hall. Laura Bridgman: Dr. Howe's Famous Pupil and What He Taught Her, Boston, 1903.
- Freeberg, Ernest. The Education of Laura Bridgman : First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language, 2001. ISBN 0-674-00589-9
- Gitter, Elisabeth. The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl, 2001. ISBN 0-374-11738-1
- Hayward, John. "A Gazetteer of Massachusetts", Boston, 1847.
- Hunter, Edith Fisher. Child of the Silent Night, 1963. ISBN 0-395-06835-5
- Jerusalem, Wilhelm. "Laura Bridgman. Education of a Deafblind. A Psychological Study", Vienna, 1890.
- Lamson, Mary Swift (1878) Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman (Boston, Houghton Mifflin)
- Richards, Laura E.. Laura Bridgman: The Story of an Opened Door, D. Appleton & Company. 1928.
外部連結
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160802163211/http://library.pittstate.edu/spcoll/ndxbridgman.html Laura Dewey Bridgman collection at The Leonard Axe Library], Pittsburg State University.
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- Laura Bridgman and the music taken from "Wilhelm Jerusalem – Helen Keller:'Letters'" Dokumentary Theatre by Herbert Gantschacher:[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe4zzc_laura-bridgman_creation]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120327214639/http://library.du.ac.in/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1/12411/Laura%20bridgman%20the%20story%20of%20an%20opened%20door%20%281928%29.pdf?sequence=1 Laura E. Richards: Laura Bridgman: The Story of an Opened Door]
- [https://opac.ub.uni-marburg.de/DB=1/SET=21/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=1016&SRT=YOP&TRM=bridgman%2C+laura Literature on Laura Bridgman at the University Library Marburg (Germany)] and the [https://www.uni-marburg.de/bis/ueber_uns/ub/sondsam/kirmsse Collection Max Kirmsse]
- [https://www.flickr.com/photos/perkinsarchive/collections/72157631975653264/ Laura Bridgman Collection in the Perkins School for the Blind Archives]
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