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The first word that Helen Keller truly understood was "water." This breakthrough occurred when she made the connection between the sign language for water that her teacher, Anne Sullivan, was spelling into her hand and the actual sensation and element of water.
Helen Keller said her first word at her family's home in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, who taught her the sign language for the word "water" while Helen was feeling water flowing over her hand.
The first word Anne Sullivan tried to teach Helen Keller was "doll," by spelling out the word in sign language into Helen's hand.
There is no definitive evidence to suggest that "water" was Helen Keller's first word. Keller's first word was reported by Anne Sullivan to be "wah-wah," which she used to refer to water.
Helen Keller's first sign language word was "water," which she learned to sign after connecting the sensation of water flowing over her hand to the fingerspelled word "water" that her teacher, Anne Sullivan, imprinted on her other hand.
The first word she spelled on Sullivan's hand was doll she did that because when Annie first came she had a doll and she would not give the doll to her unless she spelled the word Doll which she did when she got the hang of it
april 5, 1887
The word understand is a verb. The past tense is understood.
water was the first word that she learned and that helped her understand the world around her
In "Yours truly," you capitalize the first letter of each word if you are using it as a complimentary close in a letter, as it is a formal sign-off.
There is a popular misconception that the first word Helen Keller learned was "doll"; however, historical records indicate that her first recognized word was actually "water." Helen Keller described the moment she made the connection between the manual sign for water and the sensation of water flowing over her hand at the water pump at the age of 7.
hellen Keller said a lot of important things. when she was blind and deaf, the first word she said starting to recover, was "wah wah", which means water.
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