helen keller

HELEN ADAMS KELLER

Una Sabljaković

CHILDHOOD

Born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia,Alabama

Full sight and hearing

Started speaking with 6 months, walking at the age of 1

LOSS OF SIGHT AND HEARING

With 19 months she got „Brain fever”

Scarlet fever or meningitis

Blind, deaf and mute

EDUCATOR ANNE SULLIVAN

Started to be Helen’s educator with 20 years

Helped to develop Helen’s enormous intelligence

Helen entered Roadcliff college

Graduated 1904.

Mastered several methods of communication: touch-lip reading, Braille, speech, typing and finger-spelling

Keller wrote her first book, The Story of My Life

„THE STORY OF MY LIFE” Written while Helen was a student

A moving story of the education of a child with the extreme handicap of being deaf and blind

Begins with a description of Helen’s earliest memories

Detailing her early life, especially her experiences with Anne Sullivan

DEATH Died peacefully in her sleep 1968.

at the age of 87

More than 30 years after the deaht of Anne