- HELEN KELLER

 Helen Adams  Helen was born with

Keller was born the ability to see and
on 27th June 1880, hear. At 19 months
old, she became ill,
in Tuscumbia,
and this illness left
Alabama, United Helen both deaf and
States. blind.
 Anne Sullivan was Helen’s teacher and began
teaching her how to communicate. Anne could
understand how frustrated Helen felt because
she had also once been blind, but later had her
eyesight restored by surgery.
 She began to teach Helen to communicate by
spelling words into her hand
 Helen’s relationship with her teacher Anne
was a hugely important part of Helen’s life.
This special friendship lasted 49 years.
 There is a whole room dedicated to her in the
American Foundation for the Blind in New
York City. This room is called the Helen
Keller Archives.
 In 1903, she wrote a book that inspired and
informed many people, "The Story of My
Life.”
 In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated
from Radcliffe College and became the first
ever deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of
Arts degree.
 In 1924, she began a very successful campaign
called the "Helen Keller Endowment Fund."