HMS Ophthalmology Faculty Member Featured in Short Documentary

Lotfi Merabet, OD, PhD, MPH appeared in a short video about Laura Dewey Bridgman who attended the Perkins School for the Blind in the 1800s and is the first known deaf-blind person to be successfully educated in the United States. She learned tactile sign language through her teacher, Dr. Samuel Howe.

Dr. Merabet discusses how the brain compensates for missing senses by intensifying the use of others, such as touch in Bridgman's case.