Helen keller ja Anne Sullivan
1. Helen Keller was born in a small town called Tuscumbia, Alabama, on
an estate called Ivy Green. She was born on 27 July, 1880, and her
parents were Kate Adams Keller and Colonel Arthur Keller. At first she
could talk and see but on February 1882 when Helen was 19 months
old she became extremely ill and lost her ability to hear and see.
(Due to a protruding(väljaulatuv) left eye, she was usually
photographed in profile.) Both her eyes were replaced in adulthood
with glass replicas.
2. Learning was tough for Helen. Because of her deafness and
blindness, no one could get through to her, and she could not
communicate with others. Basic rules and lessons made no sense to
her, and she was called a "wild child." Then, in 1886, her mom heard
about the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston from Alexander
Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. Kate wrote to the head of
the Perkins School to ask for a t...
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