Helen Keller: A Determined Woman
Imagine being a normal young girl, who loved to dress up and play outside. Now visualize having everything you have ever known, taken away from you in an instant. What would you be like if you were trapped inside your own body? What would you do if you could not see or hear, or even communicate with the world around you? Many people would be easier to give up and never try again, but Helen Keller defied the odds. She achieved so many things throughout her life and changed the special needs society. In her life time Helen Keller has provided better services for people with special needs, gave hope to the blind and deaf, and helped with the American Foundation for the Blind. …show more content…
Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Keller contracted "brain fever" at the age of nineteen months, and this resulted in the loss of her vision and hearing. Helen's mother then hired Anne Sullivan to communicate, where she was unruly and defiant. The turning point for Helen, was when Sullivan taught her the word "water" which helped make the connection between the word and the water pump. Helen was determined to have a higher education, she went to Horace Mann School for the Deaf, and eventually went to Cambridge School for Young Ladies. Helen Keller passed away on June 1, 1968 at the age of eighty seven years old (Biography.com Editors). Helen Keller was a driven and remarkable woman, who has forever changed the special needs
Imagine being a normal young girl, who loved to dress up and play outside. Now visualize having everything you have ever known, taken away from you in an instant. What would you be like if you were trapped inside your own body? What would you do if you could not see or hear, or even communicate with the world around you? Many people would be easier to give up and never try again, but Helen Keller defied the odds. She achieved so many things throughout her life and changed the special needs society. In her life time Helen Keller has provided better services for people with special needs, gave hope to the blind and deaf, and helped with the American Foundation for the Blind. …show more content…
Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Keller contracted "brain fever" at the age of nineteen months, and this resulted in the loss of her vision and hearing. Helen's mother then hired Anne Sullivan to communicate, where she was unruly and defiant. The turning point for Helen, was when Sullivan taught her the word "water" which helped make the connection between the word and the water pump. Helen was determined to have a higher education, she went to Horace Mann School for the Deaf, and eventually went to Cambridge School for Young Ladies. Helen Keller passed away on June 1, 1968 at the age of eighty seven years old (Biography.com Editors). Helen Keller was a driven and remarkable woman, who has forever changed the special needs