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Anne Sullivan tried to teach Helen the word 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.
Helen Keller didn't understand the word water
april 5, 1887
Helen Keller said "water" on April 5, 1887, when her teacher, Anne Sullivan, pumped water over her hand while spelling out the word in sign language. This breakthrough moment marked the beginning of Helen Keller's understanding of language and communication.
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Helen Keller spelled her first word, "water," after just a month of intensive instruction from her teacher, Anne Sullivan. This breakthrough moment occurred when Anne pumped water into Helen's hand while signing the word for water. Helen made the connection between the spelling and the sensation, leading to her understanding of language.
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.
Yes, it was, but after she understand the sense of finger alphabet.
water was the first word that she learned and that helped her understand the world around her
One anecdote about Helen Keller is about how Anne Sullivan taught Helen the meanings of words. For example, she let Helen touch water and then wrote the word 'water on Helen's hand with her finger.
Helen Keller's house in Tuscumbia, Alabama was a simple farmhouse with a large wrap-around porch. It had a well-tended garden and was surrounded by trees. The house also had a water pump where Helen first learned the word "water" in sign language.