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The hand spelling used by Laura Bridgman was the manualalphabet, which augments current American Sign Languagewhen spelling individual letters of a word as opposed to makingsigns that represent entire words. In the case of the deaf-blind,the letters and signs are performed directly into the hand. Shespelled the letters into the palms of her teachers, friends, andothers who had learned ASL to communicate with her, and theyspelled into her hand the same way. This form ofcommunication is now practiced as Tactile American SignLanguage. In the case of those who didn’t know ASL, a friendor member of the Perkins Institution staff acted as translatorbetween them and Laura. She wrote on what was then knownas a grooved French board to help align her block letters, andread from special raised-letter books printed by Perkins. Braillewas not used at Perkins at that time, though it was used inEurope.How little they trot me out for show these days, and yet hereI am this frigid morning, brought down from my room to meeta child, and me not out of my sickbed two weeks. They’reactually calling her “the second Laura Bridgman.” The second,and I’m still here! What am I supposed to do, bow down toher? Se

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Author

Kimberly Elkins

Publisher

Hachette Digital

Published

2014

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical

Rating

3.76 / 5 (48 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14