Learning the alphabet occurs over time; a child must learn each letterâs name, shape (upper-and lowercase letters) and common sound. This typically occurs in stages, beginning with a toddler singing the alphabet song.
Rosemary Kennedy, the third child and first daughter of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy, was born in the middle of a virulent Spanish influenza sweeping the country in September 1918. Pregnant women had feared the influenza affecting their unborn children.
So in 1941, when Rosemary was 23, Joe Kennedy hired two surgeons â Dr. James W. Watts and Dr. Walter Freeman â to perform a prefrontal lobotomy on her. It was an experimental treatment at the time, designed to relieve psychiatric symptoms.