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Helen Keller was born on the 27 th June 1880.

Helen Keller. Helen Keller was born on the 27 th June 1880. She was a happy baby but after becoming very ill at 19 months old she was left blind and deaf. People around her found her difficult to understand when she tried to talk. This left her very cross and often very naughty.

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Helen Keller was born on the 27 th June 1880.

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  1. Helen Keller • Helen Keller was born on the 27thJune1880. • She was a happy baby but after becoming very ill at 19 months old she was left blind and deaf. • People around her found her difficult to understand when she tried to talk. • This left her very cross and often very naughty. • Answer these questions. • When did Helen become deaf and blind? • Why did she get angry?

  2. Annie Sullivan/Helen's Helper • Helen was lucky that her parents could afford someone to look after her. Annie arrived and straight away knew she had to get Helen to behave. • Helen would have to wash and dress before being given breakfast. • Annie tried to help by spelling words on Helen’s hand, but Helen did not understand. Then one day while getting water from the tap outside water went on one of Helen’s hands, on her other hand Annie spelt the word water. Helen had learnt her first word.

  3. Chart to show sign language • Try this on a friend’s hand – ask them to close their eyes. Now spell your name on their hand - can they guess what you have written?

  4. Braille-dots to help people to read • Now she could ’talk’ to people, Helen was no longer angry. She learnt very quickly because other people ‘wrote’ on her hand. But how could she learn more for herself without someone to help her? • A man called Louis Braille worked out a way that allowed blind people to read. Patterns of raised dots, each letter has it’s own pattern. Blind people read by touching the raised dots to feel each letter. Helen learnt very quickly.

  5. . Can I speak too? Not only did she learn to read and write but she also started to write letters. Her writing was kept straight by lines of dots on special paper.

  6. Helen learned about another girl who was also deaf and blind but was learning to speak. Helen went to the Horace Mann School for the deaf. Here Helen learned to speak but was still quite difficult to undertand. Helen learns to speak

  7. Helen Grows up • Annie could not teach Helen everything she needed to know. She needed to go to school. Annie went to all her classes. • At 10 she went to a school in New York for the deaf • At 12 she went to Cambridge School for young ladies. • Annie wrote whatever the teacher said on Helen’s hand. • When Helen was 20 she went to Radcliffe College.This was not a college for blind and deaf students.

  8. How can I earn a living? • Annie stayed with Helen even when she got married. • Helen always wanted to help the blind and travelled all over the world telling her story. • She worked for the Foundation for the Blind. • Helen died when she was 87 but people still remember Helen for she was so brave and did so much good.

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