Perkins School for the Blind

Helen Keller was deaf and blind, but learned to overcome obstacles and inspire many. She inspires people to try their hardest at everything they do, and they will go far. She inspires people to believe in miracles and having faith in yourself that you can do whatever you put your mind to. Helen Keller should be in our history books because of her education, successful career, and inspiration to others. Once Helen learns to overcome her obstacles she wants to learn everything that she can. At nineteen

the opportunity to open a New England asylum for the Blind in Boston (Wittenstein, 2013), which later became the Perkins School for the Blind (Hatlen, 2000). With no background in education, Samuel G. Howe began his career as an educator of the blind, including people who were deaf/blind, in 1829 (Ajuwon & Oyinlade, 2008; Kleege, 2002). Howe based his school, the Perkins School for the Blind, on the European models of schools for the Blind (Ajuwon & Oyinlade, 2008; Hatlen, 2000). However, he

considered hopeless and incapable of obtaining an education. No one had managed to teach language to a deaf blind individual in the past. This fact spurred Howe on and so he travelled to where Laura lived in Hanover, New Hampshire. He convinced her family to allow him to take her back to Perkins School for the Blind, located in Boston. In October of 1837, at almost 8 years old, Laura arrived at the school to begin her

Laura Bridgman is known to be the first deaf and blind American to get an education and English-language. She was born on December 21, 1829 in Etna, New Hampshire. Her parents Daniel and Harmony Bridgman were farmers When was two years old she became very sick with scarlet fever and end up losing her hearing, taste, sight, and smell. On October 4, 1837 when Laura Bridgman was seven years old when started to attend Perkins School for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts. The only way Laura Bridgman

a huge responsibility to take care of her brother fell on her shoulder. On the other hand, “She was unschooled; hot tempered; nearly blind from

interest in schools for the blind and was persistent in gaining an education and escaping poverty.

Anne Sullivan was born on 4/14/1866 in Feeding hills, Massachusetts. She was a gifted and talented person who taught a school for the blind, this school was called, “Perkin’s School for the Blind,” and this is where she taught Helen Keller, a blind and deaf student to communicate. This is a woman who made history for her actions and helped a lot of people during her time before her death in 1936. Anne Sullivan and her two surviving siblings grew up in impoverished conditions, and struggled with

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

you”. Finally think that you had none of these senses and you couldn’t comprehend why you no longer have them. Helen Keller changed the world by showing people that anyone can go to school, live, learn, and love no matter the circumstance is. She went to school even though he was deaf, mute, as well as being blind. Helen Keller was born June 27, 1880 in Alabama. Her parents where Kate Adams and Colonel Keller. Colonel Keller worked for the local paper. February 1882 when she was 19 months old

Sullivan finally started to earn Helen’s trust so she could move on with her education. The next year, Anne Sullivan brought Helen to the Perkins School for the Blind. Helen seemed really happy there. (Biography.com) In 1892, Helen and Sullivan left Perkins school and didn’t return because of a mishap with plagiarism. In the year of 1898, Helen attended the Cambridge School for young ladies to help prepare for college. She had always wanted to go to college since a young age. She entered the Radcliffe college