Samuel Gridley Howe, director of the famous Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston (and later husband of Julia Ward Howe), and given an education using tactile type and the manual alphabet. She met the fellow dead-blind Helen Keller when she was a much older woman....
But Curtis has also dished out a few eyebrow-raising claims about the Ingraham kids’ upbringing and Laura’s life. He wrote on Twitter that she once mocked a black college classmate by speaking “jive.” He shared that one of Laura’s adopted immigrant children called him a “Dummy-crat....