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Helen Adams Keller

Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama June 21, 1880. She died June 1, 1968. Helen Keller, when she turned 19 months, had a horrible illness. It was either Scarlet Fever or Meningitis. When the illness went away she became deaf and blind. She could not hear or see anything at all. When she was about five or six years old she started communicating with her friend Martha Washington, who was only six years old. When she was about seven she had somebody come over to her house and teach her how to communicate. That somebody was Anne Sulivan. How she taught Helen is she spelled out words on Helen's hand with her finger. She spelled things like doll, water, food and play. Anne taught her very simple words at first. But as Helen got older she taught her even harder words and how to have conversations. When Helen became an adult she became a very famous author. She wrote many books. Two of them were The Frost King and The Story of My Life. The Story of My Life was made into a little play. She was a very famous speaker and author for many years. Then, when she got old she spent the last year of her life at home.
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