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Helen Adams Keller was an American author and activist. She managed to have great success in all her endeavors despite being deaf blind, a condition that was the result of an illness she suffered when she was 19 months old. She learned to read and to write using the Braille method, which was taught to her by Anne Sullivan, who was blind herself. She started teaching her in the year 1887, when Helen was 7 years old.

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Where and when was Hellen Keller born?

Helen Keller was born in the year of 1880 in Tuscambia, Alabama.


What year did Helen Keller have child's?

Helen did not have children.


What year did Helen Keller learn about words with water?

Helen Keller learned about words with water in the year 1887, when she was seven years old. Anne Sullivan, her teacher, used water to spell out words on Helen's hand, helping her make the connection between objects and their names.


What year did hellen Keller live?

Helen Keller lived from 1880 to 1986


What year did Helen Keller get a teacher?

in never


What year did Helen Keller became a teacher?

Helen Keller became a teacher in 1920. She taught at the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachusetts.


What year did Helen Keller publish story of your life?

Helen Keller published The Story of My Life in 1903. There is no The Story of Your Life attributed to her.


What did Annie Sullivan accomplish?

Anne Sullivan taught Helen Keller. She taught her to read and write braille. She also taught her to understand the words Anne wrote in her hand. She first communicated with Helen by writing " water " into her hand when they were near a water pump. Anne married John Albert Macy in 1905, and the three lived together until 1912 when they divorced. Helen and Anne had a great 49 year friendship. Anne eventually dies at the age of 70 in 1936.


What year did Helen Keller start college?

1900


What year did Helen Keller get her bachelor of arts degree?

Radcliffe, which is the Women"s subsidiary of Harvard University. this occured in l904.


What age did Helen Keller die at?

Helen Keller died at age 87, a few days short of her 88th birthday. In the year of 1968.


When did Helen Keller's mother die?

The death of Helen keller's father was August 19, 1896 from a heart attack. Helen keller's mother died October 2, 1921 from sickness and oldness.