The Life of Helen Keller

By amelia.gaskill

  • Helen is Born in Tuscumbia

  • at the age of 19 months

    helen loses her sight and hearing

  • recognized by Alexander Graham Bell as being exceptionally bright

  • Began instruction under Anne Sullivan

  • learned to read and write in Braille

  • Mark Twain recignized her great intellect and discouraged spirit dispite her blindness and deafness

  • Enrolled in radcliffe college as a regular student with the help of her teacher , Anne Sullivan

  • Published "The Story of My Life"

  • first blind and deaf gruaduate from Radcliffe

  • Published "The World I Live In"

  • Held many lectures and tours in the U.S.A.

  • met President Calvin Coledge

  • Braille accepted as world's standard alphabet for the blind

  • established a close relationship with Japanese

  • Published Helen's journal

  • Met Winston Churchill

  • Won Oscar award for documentary on her life

    also she published "teacher"

  • Met President Eisenhower

  • Suffered a stroke and retired from public life

  • Died at the age of 88