Hellen's teachers
Anne's unnusual teaching methods
She normally held her classes outdoors. They listed different words for things and learned biology and science outside.
why was it hard for Hellen to communicate?
She was blind and deaf.
The number of books Hellen Keller published, even with her blind-deafness
Hellen Keller published 13 books throughout her life. She worked tirelessly to complete these, and she inspired many plays, books, and articles.
Around the age Hellen was when she became blind & deaf
She was around 1 1/2. She got very sick and couldn't recover her sight and hearing. No one really knows what sickness Hellen had.
The first school Anne went to
Perkins School for the blind. She suffered a rare desiese at a young age that created hard and painfull growths that scratched her eyes. She could see, but very poorley. She had many surgeries over the years to correct her vision, but her issues lasted her whole life and got worse as she spent long hours reading to Hellen and helping her in math and history.
The form of reading hellen learned
Brialle
The first school she went to was Perkins School for Blind. She then went to Cambridge School for Young Ladies, a school that was not for the blind and deaf. She worked to the point of exastion, refusing to give up.
What Hellen did the day she learned her first word
She spent the whole rest of the day learnig more words! She walked around and touched things like trees or rocks, then held out her hand for Anne Sulivan to spell the name of the item into her hand.
The year Anne's mother died
1875 Anne's mother died of Tuberculosis when she was only nine.
Why normal sign language would'nt work for Hellen
She was blind. She could not see the signs.
Hellen practiced talking and sign by using this unnusual method suggested by Anne
Talking to herself. Hellen signed to herself, her dog, anything! When she learned to speak, she practiced by talking to herself.
The first thing Anne taught Hellen
Her manners! Helen had a fiery temper, because she had no other way to communicate than to throw a fit. There was no other way for her to tell people how she felt.
Hellens teacher who was an inventor
Alaxandar grahm bell
How Hellen communicated as a small child
She used gestures and tried grunts to communicate what she wanted, though often people still could'nt understand, causing her to get angry.
A famouse medal that Keller revieved
In 1684, Hellen Keller was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
The age Helen was when she passed away
87. Hellen spent her time as she got older visiting the wounded and discouraged, and telling them her story.
The first person Anne worked with
Laura brigman
The book Hellen "wrote" that was supposedly plagerized
The frost king; she wrote it for a friend, but she may have acedentaly used bits from a book she had previosly read
The degrie that Hellen was the first blind and deaf person to achive
The honerary day from Harvard University. She also got honerary degrees from Temple university, the University of Glosglow; Scottland, Dehli, Berlin, Germany, Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and South Africa.