Helen Keller: The First Blind-Deaf

If most people heard the name Helen Keller, they would think of that poor girl who was deaf and blind. They would think of her and remember the stories they heard about how she was taught how to communicate by a teacher named Anne Sullivan. That is probably all they would think about her. How she was world famous because of how she learned to read through Braille, letters pressed into her hand, and how she eventually learned to speak, however, this is not all there is to Helen Keller.

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.

Once Helen learns to overcome her obstacles she wants to learn everything that she can. At nineteen months old her parents discovered that she was deaf and blind. They wrote to The Perkins School for the Blind, who sent a graduate, Mrs. Annie Sullivan. Annie helps teach Helen a language that she will understand. One day at the water pump it finally clicks that the signs have meanings. From that day forward Helen was determined to learn as much as she could. Helen attended the Perkins School for the Blind. At the Perkins School for the Blind she learned to read braille, and how to speak. She learned how to speak by touching the reader's mouth while they were talking. Helen learned to speak many different languages. Helen learned to speak French, German, Greek, and Latin. Helen Keller was the first deaf and blind person to receive a college degree, and graduate with honors. Helen Keller used all her knowledge she learned, in her career to inspire many.

So the school sent her twenty year old, Anne Mansfield sullivan. Who came to Tuscumbia to be her teacher. Anne was a graduate of Perkins school for the blind. Anne herself was blind but through a series of operations regained her sight. Therefore she was able to relate to what Helen was going through. But at first Helen did not know or trust Anne but in time she did and grew really close to her. (American Foundation for the Bind)

Helen Keller was a deaf and blind author, lecturer, and political activist from the United States. Her teacher, Anne Sullivan, taught her how to communicate and eventually Keller became the first deaf and blind person to receive a Bachelor of Arts. She wrote many books and advocated for labor rights, socialism, woman’s suffrage, antimilitarism, and many other controversial topics.

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

American educator, author and activist 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. Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. In 1882, she fell ill and was struck blind, deaf and mute. Beginning in 1887, Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her make incredible progress with her ability to talk, and Keller went on to college, graduating in 1904. In 1920, Keller helped found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). During her lifetime, she received many honors in recognition of her accomplishments. Her life story are often times studied by young students to learn about perseverance, courage and the value of education.

Hellen Keller is a well known woman who has made a huge impact on people around the planet. Not being able to see or hear, she did an adorable work to improve the condition of the blind, the deaf, and the speechless. She was born on June 27, 1880. When she was 1, a sudden illness destroyed her sight, hearing and perspectives. According to Hellen, her real birthday was on March 3, 1887 when she first met Anne Sullivan and she started to learn to read Braille. She started her charitable activities after World War II visiting hospitals, bringing comfort and hope to blinded soldiers and the women and children of other countries. Helen spoke out about the need for increased care of the blind, for education to help them to take their place in the

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.

Keller proved herself by becoming the first deaf-blind person to make it through school and receive a formal education. She started her formal education at the age of 10 after learning about a young deaf-blind

Her mother refused to send her away, believing that one day she could be educated. Anne Sullivan, dealing with her own eyesight problem, was able to control Keller’s bad behavior, bringing meaning to the girl’s life. A bronze statue of Helen Keller was added to the United States Capitol Visitior Center. It shows

Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Georgia in 1980. Following a dreadful illness, Keller became blind and deaf. Helen learned to communicate using her fingers. She and Martha Washington, the daughter of the family gardener, invented signs to communicate. When Helen became difficult to deal with because of her bad behavior, her family contacted Alexander Graham Bell. He had been working with children who were deaf. He encouraged them to take Helen to the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts. There they met Kate Sullivan who became Helen’s teacher and friend. Helen’s ability to communicate allowed her to graduate college and become very

Helen Adams Keller, an American author, who was born in a northwest Alabama city of Tuscumbia on June 27, 1880.She was the third child in her family. The little girl suffered an unknown illness when she was 19 months old, it makes her deaf and blind. Firstly, she didn’t know that she was different from others. However, with time going by, she began to realize that she was obviously strange. When she uses her hands and other body languages to express her meaning, her family members are speaking to others with their mouths. She was such an intelligent girl, and she never gave up, trying her best to know the world. By the age of six, Keller wrote something in her autobiography, “The need of some means of communication became so urgent that these outbursts occurred daily, sometimes hourly.” (Perkins School for the blind)

Helen Adam Keller came into the world on the twenty seventh of June in the year of 1880. She was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her parents were Kate and Arthur Keller and she had an assistant that helped her named Anne Sullivan. When Helen Keller was 9 months old, she got a sickness which was a painful ache to the stomach and the brain which caused her to go blind and deaf. As she grew older she went to many doctors to try and get help for her disabilities. One of the doctors got her an assistant, Anne Sullivan in which she helped Helen Keller to “speak” with others. As she grew older she went to many places around the world and influenced and inspired many with disabilities. She went to school and ended up going to college and graduated. The

Many people think of her as the world’s greatest and most honored humanitarian who ever lived. Mother Teresa as accomplished more than she thought of she ever would. Today she and her associates have more than six hundred missions of charity in one hundred and twenty countries on