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HELEN ADAMS KELLER (188o- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 718 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HELEN See also:ADAMS See also:KELLER (188o- )  , See also:American See also:blind See also:deaf-See also:mute, was See also:born at Tuscumbia, See also:Alabama, in 1880 . When barely two years old she was deprived of sight, See also:smell and See also:hearing, by an attack of See also:scarlet See also:fever . At the See also:request of her parents, who were acquainted with the success attained in the See also:case of Laura See also:Bridgman (q.v.), one of the graduates of the See also:Perkins Institution at See also:Boston, See also:Miss See also:Anne M . See also:Sullivan, who was See also:familiar with the teachings of Dr S . G . See also:Howe (q.v.), was sent to instruct her at See also:home . Unfortunately an exact See also:record of the steps in her See also:education was not kept; but from 1888 onwards, at the Perkins Institution, Boston, and under Miss Sarah See also:Fuller at the See also:Horace See also:Mann school in New See also:York, and at the See also:Wright Humason school, she not only learnt to read, write, and talk, but became proficient, to an exceptional degree, in the See also:ordinary educational curriculum . In 1900 she entered See also:Radcliffe See also:College, and successfully passed the See also:examinations in See also:mathematics, &c. for her degree of A . B. in 1904 . Miss Sullivan, whose ability as a teacher must be considered almost as marvellous as the See also:talent of her See also:pupil, was throughout her devoted See also:companion . The case of See also:Helen See also:Keller is the most extraordinary ever known in the education of blind deaf-mutes (see DEAF AND DUMB ad fin.), her acquirements including several See also:languages and her See also:general culture being exceptionally wide . She wrote The See also:Story sf My See also:Life (1902), and volumes on Optimism (1903), and The See also:World I Live in (1908), which both in See also:literary See also:style and in outlook on life are a striking See also:revelation of the results of See also:modern methods of educating those who have been so handicapped by natural disabilities .

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