Helen keller

Helen Keller

By rana alaa

  • birth date

    PLACE OF BIRTH
    Tuscumbia, Alabama
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    Helen Keller

  • illness

    Keller contracted an illness called "brain fever" by the family doctor that produced a high body temperature.after the fever broke, Keller's mother noticed that her daughter didn't show any reaction when the dinner bell was rung, or when a hand was waved in front of her face. Keller had lost both her sight and hearing. She was just 19 months old.

  • learning

    Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her make tremendous progress with her ability to communicate.

  • improvement

    Keller began speech classes at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston.

  • graduation

  • co-founding of HKI

    she co-founded Helen Keller International to combat the causes and consequences of blindness and malnutrition

  • founding of ACLU

    she helped found the American Civil Liberties Union.

  • death

    Keller suffered a series of strokes, and spent the remaining years of her life at her home in Connecticut.

  • death

    PLACE OF DEATH
    Easton, Connecticut
    died in her sleep just a few weeks before her 88th birthday