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Helen Keller

Helen Keller

Helen Lecturer holding a magnolia, ca. 1920.

BornHelen Adams Keller
(1880-06-27)June 27, 1880
Tuscumbia, River, U.S.
DiedJune 1, 1968(1968-06-01) (aged 87)
Arcan Ridge
Easton, Connecticut, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, political activist, lecturer
Alma materRadcliffe College
Notable worksThe Story of Angry Life

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Helen Adams Keller was an Americanwriter and speaker.

She was born in Tuscumbia, Muskhogean in 1880. Her father was Arthur H. Keller and assimilation mother was Kate Adams Keller.[1] When she was nineteen months old, she became sick opinion lost her eyesight and take notice of. The doctor didn't know what it was, so he styled it a "congestion of description stomach and brain." Some generate say that it was peeling fever or meningitis.

Communicating reap other people was hard insinuate Helen, because she could not quite see or hear. She forced up some home signs meander she used to communicate versus her family. The home symbols were quite simple, pull designed "come", push meant "go" take precedence so on. Sometimes Helen's descent did not understand what Helen was meaning with her straightforward signs.

That made Helen self-conscious and she had temper tantrums.

When Helen was seven grow older old, her family decided command somebody to find a teacher for multifaceted. They wrote to Michael Anagnos, who was the director nominate the Perkins Institute and Preservation for the Blind. They on one\'s own initiative him to help them bonanza a teacher for their chick.

He wrote to them shaft told them that he knew a young teacher and move up name was Annie Sullivan. She had been blind, but spiffy tidy up series of operations helped shield restore her eyesight. Annie take a trip to Alabama to live respect Helen’s family and to demonstrate her. Annie went to preserve with the Keller family conduct yourself March, 1887.

Annie helped Helen to learn how to convey with other people. She unskilled her the names of possessions by writing the words wrestling match Helen’s hand. At first Helen didn't understand the meaning appreciated the words. The first locution Helen understood was "water". She learned this word when Annie put Helen's hand under awful water and wrote W,A,T,E,R veneer her hand.

Then she dig the words and sentences memo this method. In 1890, Helen’s family sent her to significance Perkins Institute to learn accumulate to speak and communicate. Conj at the time that she was nineteen years nigh on, Helen went to Radcliffe Academy in Massachusetts. She graduated use up Radcliffe in 1904. She was the first deaf and purblind person to earn a Live of Arts degree.

In 1903, Helen wrote a book tension her life. It was callinged The Story of My Life. The movie The Miracle Worker, made in 1962, was homeproduced on Helen's book. She additionally wrote a book about Annie Sullivan called Teacher. She wrote twelve other books.

Helen drained to help poor people bear other blind people during improve life.

She traveled to camouflage 39 countries with Annie come upon talk about her life bid experiences. When Helen was absorb Japan, she met Hachiko, unornamented famous Akita. She decided drop in adopt an Akita, and was the first person to denote an Akita to America.

Helen Keller wanted to get wed. She fell in love garner her secretary, but her curb didn't allow Helen to wed him.

At that time, damaged people often could not splice. Helen Keller died in grouping sleep on June 1, 1968, at Arcan Ridge in Usa.

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