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
doll is the answer
D-O-L-L
Helen Keller learned how to eat with a spoon at the age of seven, shortly after her teacher Anne Sullivan arrived to work with her. Sullivan taught Keller using the manual alphabet by spelling words into her hand so she could associate them with objects and actions.
Anne Sullivan first taught Helen Keller the manual alphabet by spelling words into her hand. This method of communication was crucial in helping Helen understand language and connect words with their meanings.
Anne Sullivan tried to teach Helen the word water.
The first word Anne Sullivan tried to teach Helen Keller was "doll", by spelling the letters on Keller's hand. A month later, when Keller was 7, she realized the motions Sullivan was making on the palm of one hand, while pouring water over the other.
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.
When Helen Keller first understood the word "water," she made the connection between the word Anne Sullivan was spelling into her hand and the sensation of water flowing over her hand. This breakthrough moment was life-changing for Keller as it was her first step towards understanding language and communication. She later described this experience as her "soul's sudden awakening."
Annie Sullivan was famous for helping Helen Keller learn what the world around her was like by spelling words in to her hand and if she could spell them in her hand she would give her the thing she spelled.
Anne Sullivan is the teacher and companion of Helen Keller. Anne used a strict schedule of teaching with Helen, with constant introduction of vocabulary words.
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.
Michael Anaganos, director of the Institute, then located in South Boston, was approached to suggest a teacher for the Keller's deafblind daughter. He asked Anne Sullivan, a former student, herself visually impaired and only 20 years old, to become Helen's instructor. It was the beginning of a 49-year relationship, Sullivan evolving into governess and then eventual companion. Anne Sullivan arrived at Keller's house in March 1887, and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with "d-o-l-l" for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present. Keller was frustrated, at first, because she did not understand that every object had a word uniquely identifying it. In fact, when Sullivan was trying to teach Keller the word for "mug", Keller became so frustrated she broke the doll. Keller's big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of "water"; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world. As lifelong companions Sullivan and Keller continually lived, worked, and traveled together.