Helen Keller
Helen Keller was born on the 27th of June 1880 in a small town called Tuscumbia, in the State of Ivy Green in Alabama, in the USA.
Her parents were Kate Adams Keller and Colonel Arthur Keller.
She was born with full sight and hearing but on February 1882, when she was nineteen months old, she had “brain fever” which caused her serious health problems. Then she was a deaf and blind special person.
When she was a child she had a special teacher called Anne Sullivan. She helped Helen control her temper, understand words and their meaning, communicate using sign language and write in Braille, the special alphabet for blind people.
When Helen was thirteen, Helen and Anne moved to New York city. There Helen attended the Wright-Humason School for the deaf. She was the only student who was deaf and blind. In class Anne write everything with sign language on Helen’s hand.
Then Helen went to the university and she was the first blind and deaf person to get her degree.
Helen was a writer in English. She was a political activist defending the access of blind and deaf people to school and to the university.
Helen Keller is a famous person all around the world because she wrote a book of her life, “The story of my life”. And because she was the first deaf and blind person to get a degree at the university.
Helen Keller was an important member of the American Foundation for the blind people. Helen visited 39 different countries to talk about her life and to defend blind and deaf people. This world tour was founded largely by the American Foundation for the overseas blind people.