Institute for the blind, Keller was immediately paired up with a recently graduated teacher Anne Sulivan. Anne Sulivan immediately started teaching Keller. Sulivan brought Keller out to a water pump, and put one of Keller's hands under the running water, and traced the letters W-A-T-E-R in the palm of her other hand. The word water was the first word Keller learned as a blind and deaf person. Keller's teacher Anne Sulivan started teaching Keller at the age of 21. Sullivan's parents immigrated from
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Helen Keller, a woman most famously known for the fact that she was both deaf and blind, did not let her disabilities prevent her from receiving a full education and living her life to its full potential. Although she was quite successful despite the difficulties she faced, others are not as lucky. Many people worldwide suffer from blindness or some sort of vision impairment. Vision loss can affect the way one functions socially and economically, leading to drastic changes in one’s daily life. Blindness
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Imagine being born with two other siblings that died, a mother who dies of sickness, and an abusive father who abandons you. Annie Sullivan was a part of that family, which gave a young child a horrifying and depressing start to life. But, over time the fog uplifted from her dark world, and she became a famous name in history. Annie Sullivan faced a harsh and discouraging childhood, taught Helen Keller, a deaf and blind girl, how to understand the world, and became an inspiration for teachers and
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suffered from Scarlet Fever, which left her blind and deaf. Her articulate speech was gone as well. With these disabilities she also had problems with relationships. She never had children or got married. Her greatest confidant was her teacher, Anne Sullivan. She learned to talk passably and dance. Once she opened her mind she became a happy participant of the world. She graduated from Radcliffe University. She became an artful writer and a crusading humanitarian. She also revolutionized the educational
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suffered from Scarlet Fever, which left her blind and deaf. Her articulate speech was gone as well. With these disabilities she also had problems with relationships. She never had children or got married. Her greatest confidant was her teacher, Anne Sullivan. She learned to talk passably and dance. Once she opened her mind she became a happy participant of the world. She graduated from Radcliffe University. She became an artful writer and a crusading humanitarian. She also revolutionized the educational
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Helen Keller once said “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.” Helen Keller was an exceptionally brilliant individual who shaped the lives of many deaf and blind people. She had many talents and had a different outlook on the way to interpret life than what was expected to be taught to the blind and deaf. Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27,1880, in Tuscumbia, which is a small rural town Northwest of Alabama. At just 19 months
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awhile until they found Anne Sullivan. Anne Sullivan had just graduated from a collage for blind people. Even though she wasn’t blind all the way, she had caught a disease in her eye when she was two years old. As soon as Anne got there she started right away. She gave Helen a new doll and spelled D-O-L-L in her other hand then she would pat the doll. She did this for a while. Then when she was there she had trouble getting Helen to listen while her parents where there. So Anne asked them if she and
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When she was six or seven her parents had a young teacher named Anne Sullivan come live with them and work with Helen. She did not let Helen get away with whatever she wanted to do, so there was a lot of conflict with her parents to start with. After a few months, Anne was able to get through to Helen and she learned quickly after that. In 1888, Anne and Helen went to Boston; Helen wanted to help other blind and deaf people. She was an extremely
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to her being blind and deaf it was very difficult and would take her very long to learn everything and even if she did it would become very hard for her to actually understand everything with it. #6: On the first day Helen kind of just met Anne Sullivan, in the morning they almost immediately got to work trying to learn new things, starting with "doll". Several weeks later they had a break through with Helen's teachings. She was able to learn the word "water" this opened a door for Helen to learn
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In the book The Miracle Worker and the play The Miracle Worker Annie Sullivan a teacher helps a young girl Helen Keller who is deaf, blind, and mute. This may seem almost impossible but it really happened. There are many ways the book and the play were different though. To start off with Annie Sullivan was blind at one point in her life because of something that she contracted. There were a lot of things that were similar in both the play and the book. One of the things that was similar in both
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