What Are Helen Keller's Accomplishments

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Hele n Adams Keller Helen Adams Keller was a blind, deaf, mute girl. She has many accomplishments to be proud of. Blind and deaf people idolize her all around the world. Early Life Helen Adams Keller was born, June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia Alabama, U.S.- Source 1. She was born physically normal-source 4. Keller was affected at 19 months with an illness that left her blind and deaf. -Source 5.When Keller lost her sight and hearing, they believed it was Scarlet fever -source 4. Keller was examined be Alexander Graham Bell at the age of 6. He sent her to the Perkins institute for the blind.-source 4. At 14,she enrolled in a school for the deaf in New York.-source1. Keller studied at schools in New

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