Helen keller facts and quotes

American author Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27th, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama.

Helen keller facts and quotes

At the young age of 19 months, Keller permanently lost her sight and hearing. She became deaf and blind from an unknown illness, turning her into a disruptive and wild child. Looking back on her youth, she often stated that March 3rd, 1887 was a day that entirely changed her life.

It was the day Anne Mansfield Sullivan came to be her teacher. Sullivan aimed to teach Keller to connect objects and words.

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This was done by giving objects to Keller and then signing into her hand what their names were.

Within a month, Keller had finally learned her first word, water, and from there, her education went swimmingly. By 1898, Keller entered the Cambridge School for Young Ladies to prepare herself to enter college.

Within a year, she began school at Radcliffe College. She excelled in her academics, graduating cum laude in 1904 as the first deaf-blind person to rece