Helen Keller

Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscoumbia, Alabama. As a small child she was very sick and became blind and deaf. When she was six years old her father took her to Washington D.C. She was examined by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who helped the deaf to communicate. Bell told Keller's father to write to the Perkins Institution for the Blind and send a teacher who can teach his daughter. The school sent a teacher named Ann Sullivan. Miss Sullivan was very patient and taught her to read Braille. Sullivan took Helen to the Horace Mann School for the deaf, and she learned to speak English, French, and German. She also went to Wright Huanson School and Cambuage for Young Ladies. She went to the Radcliff College and graduated with high honors. She was important because she helped the blind all over the world. She raised money for the foundation for the blind. She visited many countries and wrote many books! Helen Keller died at the age of 88. If Helen Keller had not lived, blind and deaf people all over the world would not have had anyone to look up to.

http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=1
http://www.afb.org/braillebug/helen_keller_bio.asp
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hkeller.htm 
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Helen_Keller/
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_keller.hcsp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

1998, by Kristen, third grade

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