How and when does Helen Keller's family first discover that she can neither hear or see?

Answer 1

When she was two years old, she got sick. They discovered when she was sick when she didn't wake up. The shouted, but she still didn't wake up. They took her home and called a doctor. Helen was blind and deaf. And her parents didn't know what to do.

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Answer 2

Helen Keller's family first discovered that she could neither hear nor see when Helen was only 19 months old, after a severe illness, which was later determined to be either scarlet fever or meningitis. This illness left her permanently deaf and blind. Her family sought help from specialist Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who suggested contacting the Perkins Institute for the Blind, where Anne Sullivan was eventually hired to become Helen's teacher.