Helen Keller Accomplishments

Helen Keller was a famous person who had many hardships throughout her life, childhood, and adulthood. Despite her hardships, she managed to complete many accomplishments. Helen Keller, a deaf and blind person is considered a role model to many people across America. Helen Keller was born in the south in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880. She died on June 1, 1968 in Easton, Connecticut. She died peacefully in her sleep and left many legacies behind. Her dad was Arthur H. Keller and he served as an officer in the Confederate Army. Her mother was Katherine Adams. She had two stepbrother. Her family wasn’t very rich and their source of money came from the cotton plantation they owned in Alabama.

Helen Keller was able to develop skills at a very early age when babies usually develop later than she did. When Helen Keller was able to talk when she was six months old and she was able to walk at just the age of one. When Helen Keller was just 19 months old, she had and illness “brain fever” that left her to blind and deaf.

In 1887, Keller tried to begin her education. Her teacher, Anne Sullivan, tried to get Helen to learn, but she just threw temper tantrums. So, they moved away into a cottage, away from Keller’s family, so Keller could concentrate on learning easier, away from the distractions at home. In the year of 1890, she started speech class at Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston. After that, she attended Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York City from 1894 to 1896. While she was there she improved communication skills and studied regular academic subjects. After that, she went to Radcliffe