... would prepare their child to begin her new life of dark

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Helen Keller Blind and Deaf
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Helen Keller's Early life

• Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in
  Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her father, Arthur H. Keller,
  was a captain in the Confederate Army, and his
  second wife, Kate Adams Keller, was Helen's
  mother. Captain Keller took his Kate to the
  little white cottage next to his family's home,
  Ivy Green, to live when they first got married,
  and it was there that Helen was born. Opposite of
  what most people think, Helen wasnt born blind
  and deaf, but a normal, healthy baby. It was not
  until an illness that doctors described as "acute
  congestion of the stomach and brain" came to
  Helen when she was only 19 months old that took
  away her both her sight and hearing. Devastated
  by this tragedy, the Kellers began to plan how
  they would prepare their child to begin her new
  life of darkness and silence.

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Anne Sullivan Helen Kellers Teacher

• Anne Sullivan had lost most of her sight at
  the age of five. By the time she was ten, her
  mother had died and her father left her. She and
  her brother Jimmie were sent to the poorhouse in
  the February of 1876.

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More on Annes Brother

• Annes brother died there in the poorhouse. It
  was October 1880 before Anne finally left and
  went to begin her education at the Perkins
  Institution. One summer during her time at the
  institute, Anne had two operations on her eyes,
  which led to her regaining enough sight to be
  able to read normal typing for short periods of
  time.

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Graduation

• Anne graduated from Perkins in 1886 and began
  to search for work. Finding work was very
  difficult for Anne, due to her poor sight, and
  when she got the offer from Michael Anagnos to
  work as the teacher of Helen Keller, a deaf-blind
  mute, although she had no experience in this
  area, she accepted of her own free will.

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Anne Sullivan with Helen
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Water

• Helen had not yet fully understood the
  meaning of the words Anne had spelled out to
  her.But im a matter of minutes, all that was
  about to change.
• As Anne pumped the water over Helens hand ,
  Anne spelled out the word water in Helens other
  hand. Something about this explained the meaning
  of words within Helen, and Anne saw in her face
  that she finally understood.

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Finally Learning

• Helens progress from then on was
  incredible! Her ability to learn was far ahead of
  anything that anybody had seen before in someone
  with no sight nor hearing. It wasnt long before
  Anne was teaching Helen to read, first with
  raised letters and later with braille, and to
  write with both ordinary and braille typewriters.
• Michael Anagnos was keen to promote Helen,
  one of the many articles on her that he wrote
  said of Helen that she is a phenomenon. These
  articles led to a wave of publicity about Helen
  with pictures of her reading Shakespeare or
  stroking her puppy appearing in national
  newspapers.

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Helen Wants to speak

• Helen had become famous, and as well as again
  visiting Alexander Graham Bell, she visited the
  then President Grover Cleveland at the White
  House. By 1890 she was living at the Perkins
  Institute and being taught by Anne. In March of
  that year Helen met Mary Swift Lamson who over
  the coming year was to try and teach Helen to
  speak. This was something that Helen desperately
  wanted and although she learned to understand
  what somebody else was saying by touching their
  lips and throat, her efforts to speak herself
  proved at this stage to be unsuccessful. This was
  later attributed to the fact that Helens vocal
  chords were not properly trained prior to her
  being taught to speak.

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Helen Kellers College

• Helen moved on to the Cambridge School for
  Young Women in 1896 and in the Fall of 1900
  entered Radcliffe College, becoming the first
  deaf and blind person to have ever enrolled at an
  institution of higher learning.

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Radcliff College Troubles

• Life at Radcliffe was very hard for Helen and
  Anne, and the huge amount of work involved led to
  deterioration in Annes eyesight. During their
  time at the College Helen began to write about
  her life. She would write the story both in
  braille and on a normal typewriter. It was at
  this time that Helen and Anne met with John
  Albert Macy who was to help edit Helens first
  book The Story of My Life which was published
  in 1903 and although it sold little at first it
  has since become a classic.

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Kate Kellers Death

• Helens mother Kate died in 1921 from an
  unknown illness, and this left Anne as the sole
  constant in Helens life. However that same year
  Anne fell ill again and this was followed in 1922
  by a severe bout of bronchitis which left her
  unable to speak above a whisper and thus unable
  to work with Helen on stage anymore.

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Helens Graduation!

• On 28 June 1904 Helen graduated from Radcliffe
  College, becoming the first deafblind person to
  earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

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Helen Tours the World

• Helen and Anne filled the following years
  with lecture tours, speaking of her experiences
  and beliefs to enthralled crowds. Her talks were
  interpreted sentence by sentence by Anne
  Sullivan, and were followed by question and
  answer sessions.

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Speeches and More

• Although Helen and Anne made a good living
  from their speaches, by 1918 the demand for
  Helens speaches had died out and they were
  touring with a more light-hearted vaudeville
  show, which demonstrated Helens first
  understanding of the word water. These shows were
  hugely successful from the very first speach, a
  review of which reads
• Helen Keller has conquered again, and the
  Monday afternoon audience at the Palace, one of
  the most critical and cynical in the World, was
  hers.

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Helen Kellers Death

• Helen Keller died on June 1st, 1968. At Arcan
  Ridge, Helen Keller died peacefully in her sleep.
  Helen was cremated in Bridgeport, Connecticut and
  a funeral service was held at the National
  Cathedral in Washington DC where the urn
  containing her ashes would later be deposited
  next to those of Anne Sullivan and Polly Thomson.

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Credits

• http//www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/docume
  nts/publicwebsite/public_keller.hcsp
• http//who2.com/helenkeller.html
• http//www.google.com
• Special Thanks to
• Mr. Shepard
• Mrs. Doyle
• Mrs. Kelly
• Backgrounds by
• Kim

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More Credits

• Help from Kayla Modlin showed me how to do
  the background colors
• Abby Dingeman showed me how to do designs.
• Thank You all for your support
• Everyone deserves a round of
  applause!!!!

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