Helen Keller
Published on May 04, 2017
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Background- Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27th, 1880. She was the oldest of 2 daughters to be born. Helen also had 2 stepbrothers. She learned how to speak when she was 6 months old. She starting walking at age 1.
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Hardship- In 1882, Helen contracted an illness called "brain fever", which today might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. A few days after the fever broke, her mom noticed she didn't show any reaction when the dinner bell was rung, or when a hand was waved in front of her face. Helen had lost both her sight and hearing when she was just 19 months old.
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Successes- Although Helen Keller was at a great disadvantage, she worked very hard and graduated and went on to college in 1904.
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How she achieved her goal- After examining Helen, Chisolm recommended she see Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, who was working with deaf children at the time.Bell met with her parents and suggested that they travel to the Perkins Institute for the blind. There, they met with the schools director and he suggested she work with one of the most recent graduates, Anne Sullivan.
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Continued- Sullivan's first visit with her was at Helen's house on March 3rd, 1887. The first word she taught her was "doll". She would spell out the word on her hand then see if she would make a connection between the objects and the letters in her hand. Sullivan thought Keller could only concentrate only on Sullivan's instruction is she could be isolated from her family. They moved to a cottage on the plantation.
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Continued- Sullivan taught her the word "water". Keller made a connection by Sullivan putting her hand under the water hose. By nightfall, she had learned 30 words.
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Important person- Anne Sullivan was determined to teach Helen how to communicate. Without Sullivan, Helen may not have ever learned to communicate with others.
Quote: Helen's world was like a dark, silent prison. Only her teacher held the key.
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Legacy- Helen Keller is known around the world as a symbol of courage. She left behind something that everyone can use. That if you never give up, anything is possible.
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Additional facts- Helen Keller threw a lot of tantrums when she was learning to communicate. She learned how to communicate with finger-spelling, typing, speech, braille, and touch-lip reading. Keller wrote a book called the story of my life in 1902 and she was the first blind and deaf person to write a book.
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