Helen Keller Facts

• Born- June 27 1880 • Helen Keller was born with all of her senses • Helen Keller's father was Arthur H. Keller • Helen Keller's mother was Katherine Adams Keller • Helen Keller had a baby sister and two older step-brothers • Helen Keller started talking when she was 6 months • Helen Keller started walking at 1 year

• Helen Keller lost her hearing, vision and could not talk anymore when she was a year and a half old • The sickness that caused Helen Keller to lose her sight and hearing and not being able to talk was called brain fever • It made Helen Keller had a very high fever • A woman named Anne Sullivan started to help Helen Keller learn to communicate and function properly when she was about 7 years old • Helen Keller had a friend named Martha Washington • Martha was the daughter of Helen's family cook • Martha and Helen created their own signs so they could talk to each other • Helen Keller was very wild when she was a small girl • Helen's true breakthrough was when Anne pumped water over Helen's hands and signed water to her.

That is when she really understood • After that Helen was ready to learn • When Helen was about 10 she started taking speech classes • She took them at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston • By college she had learned multiple ways to communicate • Helen also when to school at the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in new York City and the Cambridge School for Young Ladies • Helen Keller was the first person blind, deaf, and mute person to earn a college degree • Helen Keller became a very famous person

• One of Helen Keller's friends was Mark Twain • John Macy helped Helen write her first book which was titled The Story of My Life • Anne Sullivan who was Helens beloved teacher married John Macy in 1905 • Helen lived with Anne and John and they took very good care of her • Helen Keller died June, 1, 1968