Helen Keller Research Paper

“The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart” -Helen Keller

Helen keller was an extraordinary author. Born as a healthy baby on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, Helen could see and hear things perfectly fine. Her dad was Arthur H Keller, who worked as a captain in the army and edited local newspapers. Her mom was Katherine Adams Keller and she also had four siblings. It was not until she was nineteen months old when she was diagnosed with an illness. Nowadays, it would be identified as scarlet fever or meningitis but back then the doctors called it brain fever. This fever caused her body to increase to a very high temperature and unfortunately due to this fever she lost her vision and

Helen was able to say her first word on April 5th 1887, which was water. Anne brought Helen to a water pump and splashed some water on one of Helen’s hand while spelling the word out on the other. Surprisingly, Helen was able to identify the word. Working as a teacher at the Perkins School For The Blind, Anne decided to bring Helen there to learn in March 3rd of 1888. Anne Sullivan stayed by Helen’s side until she died in October 20th 1936. Anne was definitely an important person in Helen’s life because thanks to Anne, Helen was able to learn words and attend schools. After attending the Perkins School For The Blind, she went to learn at the Horace Mann School For The Blind in 1890 in Boston. A couple years later she went to the Wright Humason School For The Deaf in New York during 1894-1896. Helen really wanted to attend college and so she studied at the Cambridge School For Young Ladies in 1896. She attended Radcliffe college and graduated in 1904. She even earned a Bachelor Of Arts degree and became the first ever blind and deaf person to receive it. Helen Keller published her first book (The Story Of My Life) in 1903 when she was