Helen Keller Accomplishments

Can you imagine what it would be like to live in the dark forever without light? Helen Keller was a girl who was deaf and blind. Despite the odds, she overcame her disabilities and became a well known author and speaker. Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child on June 27, 1880. At 19 months old Helen became deaf and blind from rubella or scarlet fever, also known as brain fever. Helen grew into a wild and unruly child and had many tantrums. Her family thought she should be institutionalized. Helen’s mother noticed that her daughter didn’t show any reaction when the dinner bell was rung or when a hand was waved in front of her face. Helen developed a type of sign language with Martha Washington, the family cook. By the time …show more content…
Helen had a remarkable life, receiving many honors recognizing her accomplishments, one of these and election to the woman’s hall of fame. As quoted by Senator Lister Hill, “She will live on, one of the few but immortal names not born to die. Her spirit will endure as long as man can read and stories can be told of the woman who showed the world there are no boundaries to courage and faith.” (AFB.org 2012 Biography.com) Patterson 3
Helen Keller was the first of two daughters born to Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams Keller. She also had two older stepbrothers. Keller's father had proudly served as an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The family was not particularly wealthy and earned income from their cotton plantation. Later, Arthur became the editor of a weekly local newspaper, the North Alabamian. (Biograhpy.com)

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