Helen Keller is a great
humanitarian. She deeply cared for the people who were sick and injured. These
disabled people could not use a part of their body. Helen worked for these
disabled people all through her life. Helen Keller was born in 1880 in
Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her father was Captain Arthur Keller and mother Katherine
Adams Keller. Her family was not rich and its main source of income was cotton
plantation. Helen was quite healthy when she was born. But in 1882 she had
a high fever and she became blind, deaf and dumb. At that time her father was a
newspaper editor. He saw Alexander Graham Bell about Helen. Bell, the inventor
of telephone, was working with deaf children at that time. Later Bell met Helen
and her parents. He suggested Perkins School for the Blind in Boston for Helen.
Captain Arthur went to the director of the school Michael Anaganos. Mr Anaganos
sent one of his best students called Annie Sullivan to help Helen in 1887.
Annie greatly helped Helen to communicate. Helen Keller started her formal
Education in 1890. She began to take classes at the Horace Mann School for the
deaf in Boston. From 1894 to 1896, she attended the Wright Humason School for
the deaf in New York City. There she worked to improve her communication skills
and studied regular academic subjects. Helen gradually made up her mind to
attend college. In 1896 she attended the Cambridge School for Young Ladies,
Massachusetts. Later, she was admitted to Redcliffe College. Here she learnt
reading through a special technique called Braille. She also learnt here how to
type. Annie Sullivan was always with her for help. She sat by her in the class
and interpreted lectures and texts. In 1904, Helen received a BA degree with
honours from that college. Helen Keller spent the rest of her life trying to
make it easier for disabled people to learn. Helen Keller died on June 1, 1968.
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