biography of Helen Keller

2. Helen Keller
 The name of Helen Keller is known world
wide as a symbol of courage.
 Helen was a woman that was intelligent,
high ambition, and had great
accomplishment.
 She also devoted her life to helping others.

3. Helen’s parents
Kate Adams Keller  Captain Arthur H.
Keller

4. Birthplace
 Known as Ivy
Green
 Born Tuscumbia,
Alabama
 on June 27, 1880

5. Helen’s Illness
 When Helen was 19 months old she suffered
from a disease “an acute congestion of the
stomach and brain” and it left her deaf and
blind.
 Her parents contacted the Perkins Institute
for the Blind in Boston.
 Perkins Provided Keller with a teacher.
Her name was Anne Sullivan.

6. Helen and Anne
 Anne worked out
an alphabet that
she spelled out
words in her hand.
 With Anne
teaching Helen, She
was able to pass the
admissions exam
for Radcliffe College
at the age of 16.

7. Helen and Anne
 Anne began her task with a doll that a
child made at Perkins for Helen.
 By spell “d-o-l-l” into Helen’s hand she
hoped she would learn to connect the letters
with the object.
 Helen quickly learned how to form all the
letter correctly with her hands and in the
correct order.

8. The Story of My Life
 While at college
Helen had wrote
the 1st volume of her
autobiography.
 Her autobiography
was published in
the Ladies’ Home
Journal.
 In 1902 it became a
book.

9. Graduation
 When Helen graduated
from Radcliffe College in
1904 she had mastered 5
different languages.
 On Helen’s 50th
anniversary of graduating
from Radcliffe College, She
was awarded the Alumnac
Achievement Award.
 They also showed pride in
her by dedicating the
Helen Keller Garden in her
Honor.

10. The Miracle Worker
 Helen Keller’s
childhood education
became a film called
The Miracle Worker.
 First it as a play by
William Gibson and it
won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1960
 The film won an
Oscar in 1962.

11. Helen Keller
 Died in Westport, Connecticut
 June 1, 1968

12. Websites
 www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkeller/htm
 www.afb.org/section.asp?sectionID=1&TopicID=129
 www.hiki.org/about-helen-keller/