Helen Keller Communication

On June 27,1880 in Alabama, In a little town named Tuscumbia, a little girl named Helen Keller was born. Helen Keller was a remarkable woman who helped a lot of people. Helen Keller was very healthy until keller obtained an extreme illness named “Brain Fever”. That fever produces a high body temperature that can kill you. When she got better, Keller’s mother named Katherine Adams Keller, noticed that her little girl couldn't see her mother. Keller had lost her sight and hearing when she was just 19 months old. Later when Keller grew up her parents made signs to communicate with keller. However, Keller became very wild because she would get angry and scream because she was frustrated.

Her teacher’s full name was Anne Sullivan Macey. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) dubbed her a “miracle worker.” Helen Keller’s Archives at the American Foundation for the Blind have some of Anne’s letters that she had written over the years contained inside of them. Anne Sullivan was born in 1866, and she died in 1936. Anne was a pretty strict teacher, but we can obviously see that that criticism really helped Helen to become a better, and a smarter person. Even when Helen was being stubborn Anne was always right there with her, and she never gave up on her. Anne was an amazing teacher; she knew just what to say and what to do to get Helen to cooperate.

Anne Sullivan Macy was a skilled teacher best known for her work with Helen Keller, a deaf, blind, and mute child. Nothing in Sullivan’s early years encouraged her lively open mind. She did not attend school; she was hot-tempered and nearly blind from trachoma that was left

Anne took her out to a well and put Helen’s hands under running water, spelling out the word in sign language into her little hand. From that point on Helen was taught the words for everything and how to sign them herself. She became educated and attended lectures with Anne signing the words into her hand. Keller was a fast learner and, “at the end of their first year together Sullivan was spelling into Keller's nine-year-old hand the works of Homer, Shakespeare, and the Bible.” She eventually graduated a prestigious college with

Helen's achievements were achieved only through her obstacles that she went through while learning. Helen Keller got a teacher, Annie Sullivan, who taught her many things. Annie, Helen's teacher, came to Tuscumbia on March 3, 1887 (Feeny). After six months of working together, Helen had learned the manual alphabet, could read brittle and raised type, and was writing letters (Feeny). Within six months Helen learned many things from Annie and they continue to work together throughout their lifetimes. Helen went to college and became a writer. She went to Radcliffe college because Harvard did not accept women. She was the first deaf-blind person who went through college (Feeny). Annie Sullivan was always by her side except when she took the tests (Feeny). Helen Keller finished college with the help of Annie. Helen was accused of plagiarism. She was accused because she wrote a book just like a book that was read to her three years prior (Feeny). After that, sometimes people often wondered if she was just restating things that she heard over the years (Feeny). At 11 years old Helen Keller was accused of plagiarism because she wrote a similar story that was read to before. Even though Helen Keller had many amazing accomplishments, she also had many obstacles she had to overcome in order to accomplish

Helen Keller was a social activist throughout the late 1800s and much of the 1900s for the deaf and blind. She went blind and deaf at a young age from a disease but learned how to communicate with the world. She went to Horace Mann School for the Deaf, Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and Cambridge School for Young Ladies for college. On June 23, 1953, Keller gave a speech at the National University of Mexico to promote rights for the blind specifically. Helen Keller effectively convinces her audience blind people need equal rights through the use of repetition and emotional appeals.

Yin and Yang is a popular symbol that shows that to reach greatness, one must have balance. But to have balance, one must know that there is good in the bad and the bad in the good. Everyone has or eventually will come face to face with something that will bring hardships into their lives. When faced with adversity, one must learn to live with it to overcome it. This may take time, or it may be instant. By allowing people to help you, keeping a positive attitude, and accepting who you are, people can overcome obstacles they are facing.

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

Born June 27, 1880 a baby named Helen Keller, she was a normal baby until 19 months of age when she became not only blind but blind and deaf. Anne Sullivan came to help the little child. She taught sign language on helen’s fingers and helped the child to connect objects with her signing. Once that was accomplished then Anne taught her to speak, she could never speak the clearest but what mattered is she could speak. At the age of 16 she could then speak and sign. Being able to attend school and not only finished high school but then she was the first ever blind person to get a Bachelor of arts degree. Her proud parents were Kate Adams and Arthur H. Keller, her brothers were William Simpson, Phillips, and James Keller, and she had one sister

After a long search for teachers with the ability to help Keller, her parents found Anna Sullivan:“Sullivan went to Keller's home in Alabama...She began by teaching six year-old Helen finger spelling, starting with the word "doll,"...When Keller did cooperate, Sullivan could tell that she wasn't making the connection between the objects and the letters spelled”(“Helen”). When Sullivan first arrived she tried to teach Keller her first method of fluent communication, but not understanding what Sullivan tried teaching to her made the situation frustrating for both of them. Sullivan created a revolutionary new path in education, because no teacher had ever tried to educate a blind and deaf individual. Sullivan and Keller moved to a cottage on the plantation, so Keller could concentrate on learning: “Sullivan moved the lever to flush cool water over Keller's hand, she spelled out the word w-a-t-e-r on Helen's other hand”(“Helen”). Learning the word water through Sullivan’s exquisite guidance was the start to Keller’s extraordinary life, and the incredible relationship between teacher and student. Sullivan’s brilliant teaching methods allowed Keller to grow and become an incredible epic hero.

Helen Keller has taught the entire nation that it is possible to overcome obstacles and obtain goals. At the age of nineteen months, she was stricken by an illness called “brain fever”, that left her blind and deaf. It is evident that Keller lived a strenuous life, but along the way she managed to establish the American Civil Liberties Union and received many honors in recognition of her accomplishments. The fact that a blind and deaf woman accomplished so many achievements over the course of her lifetime and is known as one of the most memorable women alive, simply amazes me. Although our lives do not necessarily alline, I hope to be as successful as Helen Keller was and overcome any obstacles that come my way.

Helen Keller’s acts influenced the disabled. Even while being disabled she was still able to achieve her goals. She was born on June 27th, 1880 as a healthy baby and over time developed a sickness which caused her to lose her hearing and seeing, but this did blind. She stop her from exploring the world. Her parents cared much about Helen, they called every teacher or school possible to help Helen get through this sickness. Until they found a teacher that was top rated, Anne Sullivan. She came to move in with the Keller’s. Helen was not a big fan of her in the beginning but created a great relationship with her at the end.

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be blind and deaf? It would make you trapped in your own head, helpless, hopeless, but could anyone like that be able to get a college degree and learn many languages? Helen Adams Keller Did. Helen came into the world on June 27,1880, in Tuscumbia, a small rural town in northwest Alabama. Struck by an illness that Helen left her blind and deaf only 19 months old. The syndrome may have been rubella, scarlet fever, or meningitis, but no one knows for sure. Helen couldn't communicate well frustrating her. By the time Helen aged, seven years, her parents finally got her guidance and instruction. Helen's parents took her to a specialist, and they were eventually connected with Annie Sullivan. Anne a graduate

People calls Anne Sullivan, Helen’s “miracle worker” because she helped her learn words without having to see, hear, or talk. She learned just like a student being taught by a teacher. This is amazing because that’s hard to work with, also even teaching a young girl. Anne Sullivan taught Helen for more than 50 years; ever since Helen was 6. She did a very good job, and helped Helen become who she wanted to be and live like a normal person without seeing or hearing. They call her a “miracle worker” because it was such a miracle seeing someone blind and deaf, knowing what to say in hand signals. Not even having to talk,

With all the difficulties Helen Keller had to face, she proved her intelligence in various ways. The beginning of it all started with the help of Annie Sullivan, who taught her the manual alphabet. After being taught her basic communication skills by Annie, she was then able to attend schools such as Perkins and Wright- Humason School in NYC. Helen was taught different ways of communication. Keller mastered the manual alphabet, braille and reading raised letters. She was taught how to write her own signature and how to typewrite. Not only did she learn English but she learned several languages such as French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin. With this background she was able to