Helen Keller Research Paper

In both the text The Story of My Life by Helen Keller and the video “How Helen Keller Learned to Talk” by Fox Movietone news there are differences between how Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan are depicted in many different ways, such as in education and behavior. The passage depicted Helen Keller as an impatient girl who had little patience for learning manners and learning how to communicate with others. The video however showed that Helen Keller as an adult has matured and grown up to become this intelligent woman, who can speak, and do things that she wasn’t able to do before alone. Ever since Helen Keller’s been 6 years and 8 months old, Anne Sullivan has been her teacher. At first, the relationship between the two is that Anne is the

First off Helen Keller obstacles were being deaf and blind “Miss Sullivan had tried to impress it upon me that ‘m-u-g’ is mug and that ‘w-a-t-e-r’ is water, but I persisted in confounding the two. this quote shows that she kept combining the two. That it was very difficult to figure out which was which even though the teacher and showed her what is

Helen's achievements were achieved only through her obstacles that she went through while learning. Helen Keller got a teacher, Annie Sullivan, who taught her many things. Annie, Helen's teacher, came to Tuscumbia on March 3, 1887 (Feeny). After six months of working together, Helen had learned the manual alphabet, could read brittle and raised type, and was writing letters (Feeny). Within six months Helen learned many things from Annie and they continue to work together throughout their lifetimes. Helen went to college and became a writer. She went to Radcliffe college because Harvard did not accept women. She was the first deaf-blind person who went through college (Feeny). Annie Sullivan was always by her side except when she took the tests (Feeny). Helen Keller finished college with the help of Annie. Helen was accused of plagiarism. She was accused because she wrote a book just like a book that was read to her three years prior (Feeny). After that, sometimes people often wondered if she was just restating things that she heard over the years (Feeny). At 11 years old Helen Keller was accused of plagiarism because she wrote a similar story that was read to before. Even though Helen Keller had many amazing accomplishments, she also had many obstacles she had to overcome in order to accomplish

Anne took her out to a well and put Helen’s hands under running water, spelling out the word in sign language into her little hand. From that point on Helen was taught the words for everything and how to sign them herself. She became educated and attended lectures with Anne signing the words into her hand. Keller was a fast learner and, “at the end of their first year together Sullivan was spelling into Keller's nine-year-old hand the works of Homer, Shakespeare, and the Bible.” She eventually graduated a prestigious college with

Helen was expected to die, but, miraculously, her fever went away. Little did her parents, Kate

I. Invention A. Research resources Helen Keller did not research topics for her speech. However, she did have to learn how to talk by the help of her friend, Anne Sullivan. Helen learned how to speak by feeling the vibrations of Anne’s voice and feeling the positions of her tong with her finger. Knowing Helen Keller was blind and deaf she did not research her speech topic she did however learn how to speak words.

As Helen Keller grew into childhood, she developed a limited method of communication with her family. The family and her had created a type of sign language, and by the time Helen Keller was 7, they had invented more than 60 signs to communicate with each other. Helen Keller

She read about the successful education of another blind and deaf child, Laura Bridgman, and sent Keller and her father to Baltimore, Maryland to see Dr. J. Julian Chisolm. He examined Keller, and suggested she go see Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, who, at the time, was working with deaf children. Keller and her parents met with Bell, and he recommended they travel to the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In Boston, Massachusetts. The family met with the school’s director, Michael Anaganos, and he suggested that Keller work with one of the most recent graduates, Anne

First of all, Helen's life was tough when she became blind, mute, and deaf. There was a time when she became very wild and uncontrollable. She would kick and scream when she was angry, and giggle uncontrollably when she got excited or

Helen Keller defied all the odds stacked against her. Annie Sullivan defied all odds of teaching her. Together they create a story. William Gibson, the author of the play, The Miracle Worker, portrays through the struggles of each girl that it takes work and discipline not pity and laziness to accomplish goals. Helen was a blind and deaf six and a half year old prone to tantrums and bad manners when Annie first met her. Considering that Annie herself had been blind and had had nine surgeries to correct her eyes readers can see that Annie understands a bit of what Helen is going through and her need for language. Annie was not exactly qualified to teach Helen yet somehow she was able to open up Helen`s mind and teach her language and

Helen Adams Keller was born in the small town of Tuscumbia, Alabama in 1880. When she was nineteen months old she was diagnosed with scarlet fever, which left her blind and deaf for the

Helen Keller has most been known as a girl who was deaf and blind most of her life. From a young age she had to learn how to communicate by using her hands and spelling out words with her fingers. Helen had to learn all about communication through a way that no child should have to. She had a personal teacher throughout her life to help her throughout the way but Helen still had to do most of the work of trying to figure out what things are. It was a difficult time for her because she never knew what was in front of her or what she was touching. She had to solely rely on her other senses to make her way through her own house! Helen really had to work to get passed her disability to just be able to communicate with others.

I was able to formulate a time line using the textbook and had Helen been born fifty years earlier then she was, she wouldn't have benefited from the revolutionary techniques that taught her reading (several languages), writing, and eventually to speak. The Braille Literary code, the same code Helen so rigorously manipulated in her literary explorations, was only fully perfected in 1834. Perkins School for the Blind, erected in 1832, was highly acclaimed for its accomplishment in Helen Keller's instance specifically. It was one of the first of such institutions in the United States. Some of the earliest schools modeled their educational programs after public schools. But as the textbook points out in both the visually and hearing disabled chapters, education of the blind or deaf is highly specialized to their specific needs.

Helen later learned to read and write. Now by the age 10 Helen wants to learn to speak. She was dissatisfied with her voice so she threw quite a few tantrums (biography.com). At the age 11 Helen was accused of plagiarism. She got help from her friends Bell and Twain to help defend her case (afb.org). As Helen grew older she

She could not see, she could not hear, and still overcame her disability. As one could imagine, this did not come without work and enormous amounts of effort put in. For years, Helen lost two of her most important senses, and her teacher, Annie was forced to break through the barriers where Helen’s knowledge was locked away, but this was not a one sided effort. Helen tried, and tried, and tried, but she could not comprehend the world around her. This frustrated her and Annie both, but with the strength and perseverance Helen exhibited, she finally understood. To support, “ANNIE [...] spells into HELEN’S free palm.) Water. W, a, t, e, r. Water. It has a—name—[And now the miracle happens.] [...]” Helen for the first time speaks, stating, “Wah. Wah. (And again, with great effort) Wah. Wah.” (Gibson 542) The language she had persevered to learn and understand, she finally comprehended with work and perseverance. The Keller family was overjoyed by this miracle Helen had, but the truth was it was inside her all along, but needed a key—that being perseverance—to unlock