Helen Keller

Helen Keller-The Golden Years (www.henry.k12.ga.us/pges/instruction/kid-pages/women/Helen.html)

Could you imagine being blind, deaf and mute at only nineteen months old? A little girl named Helen Keller had all of these disabilities. When she was only nineteen months old, she became very ill and became blind, deaf and mute. When she was growing up she had to deal with being blind, deaf and mute. When she was seven she became wild and threw tantrums.

One day her parents called up a teacher that could help blind people communicate with family and friends. Young Anne Sullivan one day came to visit and see who she would have to work with. Anne didn’t know that she would have to deal with a girl who had to have her way. She went over to Helen and used alphabet letters in her hand. Helen didn’t know what she was feeling. After awhile Anne taught Helen to understand the alphabet letters. Later that year, Anne Sullivan taught Helen Braille. (Braille was made up by a blind man named James Braille.)

She was in a group that was once assumed to be retarded and hopeless. While she was in that group she made some accomplishments, like she helped the blind deaf and mute with Braille even though she was blind, deaf and mute. She wanted to make rights for the blind and the deaf and mute, hopeless and retarded.

She had rights for the handicapped and she helped the blind with reading Braille and sevices plus social security acceptence. Later on she established an American foundation for the blind. She also became a member of the socialist party, groups like the industry workers of the world and a national association for black people.

So as you can see even though she was blind, deaf and mute she helped the people with the same problems. She died on the day of June 1st 1968, at the age of 87 while napping. She was inducted into the Women of the Hall in 1973. We still remember her this day because of how she changed the world by teaching people who had the same problems as herself. She should be rememberd as the girl who lived in the darkness but never gave up. She was an inspiration to everyone, despite her disabilities.