Helen Winfindale Essay

By; Emercyn Winfindale Helen was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was 19 months old when she came down with Scarlett fever. She lost her sight, hearing, and would not be able to speak because of it. When Helen was 5 years old, he parents found a teacher who knew how to do sign language and could teach the blind. Her name was Anne Sullivan. Helen came to know her as teacher. It didn't take long for Anne to realize that no one had ever said no to Helen. Helen was a difficult student because Anne would not give into her tantrums. Anne spent a lot of time trying to show Helen the connection between the words she spelled into her hand and the object she was holding, such as when she held out a piece of cake for Helen to smell and Helen had to be able to spell out the letters C.A.K.E in order to eat the cake. It finally clicked in Helen's mind when Anne poured water into her hand, and spelled out W.A.T.E.R. Helen became a willing learner after that. She couldn't wait to learn new words. Over the years, Helen developed a very large vocabulary of words. When she was 12 years old, a newspaper pick up the story of a young, deaf, blind girl that learned to communicate. Her story became so popular that even the president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, called and asked to meet Helen and her teacher, Anne. The President …show more content…
It covered the transformation from her childhood to a 21-year-old college student. Everybody loved Helen's book so much she became famous. Helen became an important voice for the disabled. She spoke in front of Congress to pass laws to help the disabled. She became involved with the American Civil Liberty Union, ACLU. As a way to support herself, she travelled around the world giving speeches. She even travelled over 40,000 miles across Asia when she was 75 years old. Helen would eventually stop travelling after having many strokes. She died right before her 88th