![]() ![]() After studying at the Wright Humason School for the Deaf and the Cambridge School for Young ladies, Helen entered Radcliff College in 1900 and finished her graduation in 1904. At the age of six, her mother managed to get a teacher, Anne Sullivan, to teach Helen. Indeed, her family wondered how a deaf and blind child could be educated. Although Helen learned basic household tasks and could communicate some of her desires through a series of signs, she did not learn language the way other children do. ![]() But at 19 months, Helen suffered an illness – scarlet fever or meningitis that left her deaf and blind. Helen was born on Jin Tuscumbia, Alabama, to Captain Arthur Henry Keller, a confederate army veteran and a newspaper editor, and Kate Adams Keller. Helen Keller, the little deaf and blind girl was triumphed over adversity to become world famous. ![]()
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