Life at my fingertips

Title Life at my fingertips
Names Smithdas, Robert J.
Book Number DB026059
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Book
Annotation Blind and deaf from the age of five, the author, a noted lecturer, public relations counselor, and administrator, recounts his training at various institutions where he learned to communicate through the sense of touch. He attended Perkins Institution, graduated from St. John's University, and was the first deaf and blind person to receive a master's degree. A matter-of-face document of the achievements of an indomitable spirit.
Language English
Local Subject Autobiography / Memoirs - B-MEM
Biography - BIO
Biography - Disability Interest - B-DIS
Disability Interest - DIS
Education - 370
LC Subject Deafblind people - United States - Biography
Audience Notes Male narrator. NLS/BPH
Publication Info Washington, D.C. : 2016
Original Publication Recorded from: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1958.
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