Helen Keller was born in 1880 in Alabama and became deaf and blind by the age of 19 months due to an illness. Her parents contacted the Perkins Institute for the Blind who sent Anne Sullivan to be her teacher. Through patience and perseverance, Anne taught Helen to communicate using finger spelling. Helen went on to graduate from Radcliffe College and devoted her life to helping others. Her story of overcoming adversity has inspired many through her autobiography and the play and film The Miracle Worker.

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/