2. CHILDHOOD
Born on June 27, 1880 in
Tuscumbia,Alabama
Full sight and hearing
Started speaking with 6 months,
walking at the age of 1
3. LOSS OF SIGHT AND HEARING
With 19 months she got „Brain
fever”
Scarlet fever or meningitis
Blind, deaf and mute
4. EDUCATOR ANNE SULLIVAN
Started to be Helen’s
educator with 20 years
Helped to develop Helen’s
enormous intelligence
Helen entered Roadcliff
college
Graduated 1904.
5.
6. Mastered several methods of
communication: touch-lip reading,
Braille, speech, typing and finger-spelling
Keller wrote her first book, The
Story of My Life
7. „THE STORY OF MY LIFE”
Written while Helen was a student
A moving story of the education of
a child with the extreme handicap
of being deaf and blind
Begins with a description of
Helen’s earliest memories
Detailing her early life, especially
her experiences with Anne
Sullivan
8. DEATH
Died peacefully in her sleep 1968.
at the age of 87
More than 30 years after the deaht
of Anne