Was Helen Keller deaf or blind?

Answer 1

Helen Keller contracted a very high fever - possibly scarlet fever - before she was two years old. There was no cure for the disease, and sufferers were often left disabled in some way when they recovered. In Keller's case, the disease left her both blind and deaf.

Answer 2

She was not born deaf or blind. She had "brain fever"(possibly scarlet fever or meningitis) when she was 19 months old and lost the ability to see and hear. She learned to use sign language and was aided in her education by teacher Anne Sullivan (herself vision-impaired), who became her governess.

Answer 3

Helen Keller was blind before the age of 2, her mom noticed when she was in the cradle she wasn't blinking, so she tried clapping in her face, and did things similar so then she took a lamp and shined it in Helen's eyes and didn't blink and she knew her daughter was blind. Than lost her hearing ability later. Helen had a type of disease that I cannot remember, but if you look it up on wikipedia.org you'll find out.

Answer 4

Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf. It was not until she was nineteen months old that she got stricken with some mysterious disease which even the doctor could not diagnose.So much so he had no hope for the child and saw her end every near. Slowly Helen's faculties of seeing and hearing started fading away and ultimately she lost them permanently.Darkness and stillness enveloped her life once and for all. Today, doctors believe that she must have been stricken either with scarlet fever or meningitis.

Answer 5

Helen Keller was both deaf and blind. She lost her sight and hearing due to an illness when she was a young child.

Answer 6

Helen Keller did learn to talk.

There are recordings of her.

Answer 7

She was actually both. She was born normal, and developed a disease that faded, but left her blind and deaf.

Answer 8

she contracted an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis.

Answer 9

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