Biography of Helen Keller
By: Aiden Saldana
Helen Adams Keller was an American author and a lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. As an author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions. Helen proved to the world that deaf people could all learn to communicate and that they could survive in the hearing world. She Was also taught that deaf people are capable of doing things that hearing people can do.
Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama and lived on a homestead, that Ivy Green, Helen's grandfather had built years earlier. She had two other siblings, Mildred Campbell and Phillip Brooks Keller, and two older half-brothers. Helen Keller was born able to see and hear, but she contracted an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness left her both deaf and blind. At that time, she was able to speak somehow with Martha Washington, the daughter of the family cook, who understood her signs. By age seven, Keller had more than 60 home signs to communicate with her family. …show more content…
She learned how to tell which person was walking by from the vibrations their footsteps would make. The sex and age of the person could be identified by how strong and continuous the steps were. Starting in May 1888, Keller attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In 1894, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and to learn from Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts, and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College, where she lived in Briggs Hall, South
By: Aiden Saldana
Helen Adams Keller was an American author and a lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. As an author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions. Helen proved to the world that deaf people could all learn to communicate and that they could survive in the hearing world. She Was also taught that deaf people are capable of doing things that hearing people can do.
Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama and lived on a homestead, that Ivy Green, Helen's grandfather had built years earlier. She had two other siblings, Mildred Campbell and Phillip Brooks Keller, and two older half-brothers. Helen Keller was born able to see and hear, but she contracted an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness left her both deaf and blind. At that time, she was able to speak somehow with Martha Washington, the daughter of the family cook, who understood her signs. By age seven, Keller had more than 60 home signs to communicate with her family. …show more content…
She learned how to tell which person was walking by from the vibrations their footsteps would make. The sex and age of the person could be identified by how strong and continuous the steps were. Starting in May 1888, Keller attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In 1894, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and to learn from Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts, and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College, where she lived in Briggs Hall, South