Julia Brace was born on June 13 1807, to a poor family in Hartford County, Connecticut, and became deafblind at age five from typhus fever. She graduallly stopped speaking and developed a system of home sign that she used with her parents. She was sent to a boarding school with hearing and sighted children before being offered a place at the Hartford Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb (now called the American School for the Deaf), where she enrolled on 11 June 1825, … Wikipedia
Her name was Julia Brace. She became the first deaf-blind person in America to receive instruction; and her story is told, in part, in a sheet of manuscript now in the Dartmouth College Library, a gift of the late Sanborn Brown. www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1992/LB-N9...
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Julia Brace was born at Hartford in the year 1807. At the age of four years and five months she had an attack of typhus fever, and lost the senses of both sight and hearing, though her smell and touch were unimpaired. Previous to this she had been perfe www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/1693.htm?page=7
