https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7 A Woman With A Challenge en-us 2017-10-20 16:06:03 UTC 2025-10-21 09:39:09 UTC hello@padlet.com s8550760 https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/199122374 Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880. Her parents were Kate Adams Keller and her the Colonel Arthur Keller.

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When Helen was 19 months old, she got a really severe illness which caused her to go deaf and blind at a very young age. ]]> 2017-10-20 16:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/199132873 s8550760 https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/199154849 Later on someone named Anne Sullivan came to Helen as her teacher. Anne also suffered from vision problems. At the time Anne was 20-years-old and a graduate from Perkins School for the blind.

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When Anne came to see Helen, she had the idea to live alone with her in a cottage not far from Helen's home and they stayed there for about two weeks. ]]> 2017-10-20 17:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/199156262 s8550760 https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/199158530

Anne taught Helen by signing in her hand. By connecting words to objects Helen learned quickly and was curious to learn more words every day. ]]> 2017-10-20 17:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/199158530 s8550760 https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/199169654 When Helen was only 10 she formed the desire to learn how to  speak. Anne took Helen to see a teacher at a deaf and hard-of-hearing school in Boston. She was given 11 lessons and afterwards Helen was taught by Anne.

]]> 2017-10-20 18:05:33 UTC https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/199169654 s8550760 https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/199171040 At a young age Helen always wanted to go to college. In 1898 she started school at the Cambridge School for young ladies to prepare for Radcliffe College. 

]]> 2017-10-20 18:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/199171040 s8550760 https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/200069710 Helen started school at Radcliffe in the fall of 1900, she received  a Bachelor of arts degree in 1904 and she was the first deaf-blind person to do so. ]]> 2017-10-24 16:11:26 UTC https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/200069710 s8550760 https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/200071644 She began her writing career while she was still a student at Radcliffe. In 1903 her autobiography was published and it is translated in 50 different langues today. ]]> 2017-10-24 16:14:27 UTC https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/200071644 s8550760 https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/200073060 Helen suffered from a stroke in 1960 and afterwards she didn't travel or do public speaking as much. She lived quietly at Arcan Ridge in her home in Connecticut. ]]> 2017-10-24 16:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/200073060 s8550760 https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/200074625 Helen Keller died on June 1st, 1968, in her home shortly before her 88th birthday. She left a great legacy, she shows us that we can do anything no matter the challenges we face in life as long as we put our mind to it. ]]> 2017-10-24 16:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/s8550760/85917vidvii7/wish/200074625