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    Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. In 1882, she fell ill and was hit blind, deaf, and mute. Helen Keller is an admirable woman in history because she helped other people with similar diseases and was the co-founder for the American the Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Meanwhile, Anne Sullivan helped her with her life, education, and social activism. As Keller grew up in her childhood she had a companion, Martha Washington, who helped her develop a limited method of

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    Helen Keller 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

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    Born on June 27th 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, with full hearing and sight. In February of 1882, she became ill, and lost her vision and hearing. Helen became a troublesome child with extreme tantrums, they were led Alexander Graham Bell who suggested that the family write to Michael Anagnos, director of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, and request that he try to find a teacher for Helen.Anagnos recommended a former pupil of the institution, Anne Sullivan. In 1894

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    was something terribly wrong. Helen Keller had lost her sight and hearing when she was just 19 months old. Helen's childhood, education, and achievements were very important to her life. Childhood Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880. When Helen was 19 months old, she became blind and deaf as a result from a sickness called scarlet fever. —Scarlet fever is a bright red rash that covers most of the body. You can get sore throats and a high fever.— As

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    american educator, one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians and also a co-founder of the ACLU and she was able to accomplish all these things even with a setback of being blind and deaf since the age of two. Helen was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Growing up she had a teacher named Anne Sullivan and then later on began speech classes at the Horace Mann School for the deaf along with a couple different schools and college (Radcliffe College, Cambridge School for Young Ladies etc.)

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    advance academically. The school’s director, Michael Anagnos, helped Anne find a job after graduating from Perkins. Anagnos received a letter from the Keller family who was writing about their blind and deaf daughter, Helen. In 1887, Anne traveled to Tuscumbia, Alabama, which is where she met the Keller family. Anne wanted to help Helen read braille, speak, and distinguish physical objects. Helen was rather stubborn and spoiled which led Anne to isolate her to further her education. During one lesson,

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    MVP is a person that someone looks up to and thinks they are an inspiration to them. Almost everybody has a special person that they can look up to. For example, Helen Keller was an MVP to many people. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When Helen was born she had both her hearing and her sight, but at the age of about nineteen months she lost both. (History.com). There wasn’t any medicine or real studies to some diseases, so nobody knew what the cause of her blindness

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    that they had a chance at the things that were difficult for them. Helen’s life as a child was confusing and even more difficult for her because she was just learning how to live with her disabilities. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When she was a small child, Helen was struck with a terrible brain fever. She could hardly sleep, she tossed and turned, hot and hurting. The doctor could offer a little help or hope, but she was one and a half years old, and the doctor

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    of how she was able to make things better for children and adults with disabilities, and while she did this she had no forms of communication. Helen actually wasn't deaf and blind; she was born perfectly normal in a small town in Alabama called Tuscumbia on June 27, 1880. Due to a sickness believed to be Scarlet Fever; Keller lost her ability to see and hear at the age about nineteen months. In the progressing years of her life Helen became crazy and somewhat bad. In the beginning period of Helen's

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    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,

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