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The Story Of My Life, Part 3
ON OUR arrival at the Perkins Institution for the Blind I at once began to make friends with the little blind children. It delighted me inexpressibly to find that they knew the manual alphabet. What happiness to talk with other children! Until then I had been a foreigner speaking through an interpreter. In the school where Laura Bridgman was taught the dream of my childhood was realized....
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Title: The Story Of My Life, Part 3
From: The Story Of My Life Series
Creator: Helen Keller (author)
Date: June 1902
Format: Article
Publication: The Ladies' Home Journal
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: vol.19, no.7, pp.7-8
Keywords: Alabama; Animals; Anne Sullivan; Assistive Technology; Autobiography; Blind; Boston, MA; Cape Cod, MA; Children; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Education; Educational Institutions; Helen Keller; Horace Mann School; Institutions; Manual Alphabet; Massachusetts; Norway; Oralism; Perkins School For The Blind; Ragnhild Kaata; Sarah Fuller; Schools; Sensory Disability; Sophia Hopkins; Transportation; Travel; Tuscumbia, AL
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations


Objects From This Artifact:
- The Story Of My Life, Part 1 (doc)
- The Story Of My Life, Part 2 (doc)
- The Story Of My Life, Part 3 (doc)
- The Story Of My Life, Part 4 (doc)
- The Story Of My Life, Part 5 (doc)
- The Story Of My Life, Part 6 (doc)