Helen Keller: A Medical Marvel or Evidence of the I-Function?

The terrible brain fever left her with being blind and deaf. Her mother discovered when she was blind when she was staring into the light and not blinking at all, and she discovered her being deaf by Helen not responding to the dinner bell that she rang every night. With Helen’s disabilities, she had trouble doing anything or learning anything. As the author states, “Helen seemed almost more wild animal than little girl.” (Garrett 27). So, Helen’s mom, Kate, researched for somebody that could teach her child, and she actually learn something. Finally, they found a teacher that was willing to teach Helen, her name was Anne

Helen Keller was born with the ability to see and hear. At 19 months she had an illness that the doctors thought was Scarlet Fever, this resulted in Helen becoming deaf and blind. Five years later, her parents had hired a teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Keller learned to understand and communicate to the world around her. Helen Keller stood up against

But she made others achieve what they wanted to achieve. "In a 1901 article entitled "I Must Speak" in the ladies Home Journal, Keller wrote, " Once I believed that blindness, deafness, tuberculosis, and other causes of suffering were necessary, unpreventable." This quote is important because she is saying how these diseases are unpreventable but is still trying everything she can to help.

Born on June 27th, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, Keller fell ill with “an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain” (American Foundation for the Blind, 2015), according to her doctors, in 1882. The illness left her blind and deaf. Four years later, after failures to make herself understood led to “outbursts of passion” (Keller, 1905, Chapter 3), Keller’s mother decided to seek help for her daughter. After visiting numerous physicians and specialists, they finally found their answer at the Perkins Institute for the Blind, where they were paired up with a 20-year-old former student by the name of Anne Sullivan, who became Helen’s instructor and, eventually, her

Helen Adams Keller had a happy, wealthy childhood until she fell ill and was struck deaf and blind in 1882, just 19 months after her introduction to the world. She was born with her senses of sight and hearing

At 19 months old, she got scarlet fever when her and Keller’s parents least expected it. And to make matters worse, there was no know cure for this disease. Even the doctor himself that came to look a Keller knew. He knew so well that he diagnosed her incurable. The fevers that Keller kept getting off and on where finally over. But the only downside to that is that she became blind as an effect for scarlet fever. She became blind and deaf, being cut off from the rest of the world at 4 years old.

Helen Keller was a game changer. She helped shape people’s opinions of what it means to be blind or deaf. The process of effecting change, no matter how great the stakes, takes time, patience, perseverance, faith, and sometimes pixie dust. Although, it is in dark times we learn what is most important. We often find our miracles, light bulbs, strength, Eureka’s, and sometimes even ourselves in the darkest of times. A miracle might take some time to come to light, but once it does it doesn’t take long for us to notice.

"The most beautiful thing in life cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller was an inspiration to a lot of people, specially those that share the same disabilities as her. She lost her hearing and sight at 19 months old when she contracted a sickness, but was taught and assisted by Anne Sullivan on how to communicate to the world. She attended several schools for the deaf and blind like Perkins Institute for the Blind and becoming the first deafblind person to graduate with a bachelor's at Radcliffe College. She traveled around the world to help disabled people and founded the Helen Keller International organization.

Adams Keller and Captain Arthur Henley, know that the fever left Helen blind and deaf. Helen’s

As children, many of us watched “The Miracle Worker,” the movie that showcased Helen Keller as a deaf blind child in need of communication. Through the movie, we came to admire and sympathize for this character as the movie portrays her perseverance to overcome her disabilities instead of resigning to them. The love and bond between her and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, leaves us with an image of a loving and compassionate person that we’ve come to respect. Children’s literature often portrays her in the same light. School lessons portray her as one of the leading figures of the twentieth century. She is held in high regards for overcoming her disabilities to become an advocate for people with disabilities. Some might even consider her to be an inspiration to the deaf and blind due to her success in life.

Helen Keller was not always blind and deaf, when she was only nineteen months old, she became sick. The doctor thought she would not live, but she did. However, the illness made her blind and deaf. It was scary for her and everyone else because no one knew what to do with her. She was not well behaved, but she could not see or hear what she was doing so she had a disadvantage over everyone else(2:20-2:41).

Helen Keller was born a normal baby but when she came down scarlet fever or meningitis nobody really knows. That left her blind and deaf her parents thinking they was nothing to help her they thought about putting Helen in a asylum. In this essay I will talk about Helen Keller and her life and I will also compare the similarities and differences in

People take their abilities and lifestyle for granted every day because they have not experienced having very little and being limited in their everyday lives. Many do not know what it is like to lose something or have so little so they do not appreciate the small gifts and opportunities in life that can easily be taken away. “The things we take for granted, someone else is praying for.” This quote is explains how the food fortunate people eat every day, the clothes bought regularly, and cars people ride in each day, other people yearn for. Helen Keller was not only blind, but also deaf and for a good part of her life, she did not have the luxury of seeing or hearing which is taken for granted. Sometimes many people lose their sight or hearing and after, they realize how grateful they were for having that sense at the time and appreciate their senses more. As a child, Helen struggled to adapt to be being blind and deaf. Due to her handicap, Helen did not have as many of the opportunities in life that the majority of people do. Living a life of both blindness and deafness is a huge challenge, but Helen Keller is proof that people can overcome the challenges of being blind and deaf and still go on with life accomplishing goals. By learning the Tadoma Method to communicate with other people,by touching lips to feel the vibrations of the speaker, and spelling words in the palm of her hand, Helen has proven that anything is possible. Later in life, she became the first blind and

Stuckey, Kenneth A.“Keller, Helen” The World Book Encyclopedia. 2006 ed. Vol 11. Chicago:World Book, Inc.1998.255,Print

How exactly does adversity bring forth special abilities? Adversity creates opportunities to discover talents that are used to face it. After falling ill at eighteen months, Helen Keller became deaf and blind, destined