Helen Keller
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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Biography
OCCUPATION: Educator, Activist, Journalist
BIRTH DATE: June 27, 1880
DEATH DATE: June 01, 1968
EDUCATION: Horace Mann School for the Deaf, Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, Cambridge School for Young Ladies, Radcliff College
PLACE OF BIRTH: Tuscumbia, Alabama
PLACE OF DEATH: Easton, Connecticut
FULL NAME: Helen Keller
FULL NAME: Helen Adams Keller
Helen Keller was born with all of her senses. She started talking when she was 6 months old. and walking at one.
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Ann sullivan
was Helen's teacher she helped her
Loss of sight and hearing
Keller contracted an illness called "brain fever", the true nature of this illness is still unknown today. Over time Keller's mother began to notice she had no reaction to anything happening around her.
She had lost her sight and hearing at 18 months.
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sign language
created a language with her fingers to understand by age 7 over 60 signs
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Keller had mastered several methods of communication, including touch-lip reading, Braille, speech, typing and finger-spelling. With the help of Sullivan and Sullivan's future husband, John Macy, Keller wrote her first book, The Story of My Life.
But Keller had become very wild and unruly during this time. She would kick and scream when angry, and giggle uncontrollably when happy. She tormented Martha and inflicted raging tantrums on her parents.
American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century's leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.
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After college, Keller set out to learn more about the world and how she could help improve the lives of others.
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Keller tackled social and political issues, including women's suffrage, pacifism and birth control. She testified before Congress, strongly advocating to improve the welfare of blind people.
In 1946, Keller was appointed counselor of international relations for the American Foundation of Overseas Blind. Between 1946 and 1957, she traveled to 35 countries on five continent
Through her many speeches and appearances, she brought inspiration and encouragement to millions of people.
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Keller suffered a series of strokes in 1961, and spent the remaining years of her life at her home in Connecticut
During her lifetime, she received many honors in recognition of her accomplishments, including the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal in 1936, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964, and election to the Women's Hall of Fame in 1965.
Book she wrote
Also received honorary doctoral degrees from Temple University and Harvard University and from the universities of Glasgow, Scotland; Berlin, Germany; Delhi, India; and Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Additionally, she was named an Honorary Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland.
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