Helen Keller Heard Loud: Helen Keller Quotes

By Sreechinth C

Helen Keller was born deaf and blind, but she powered her way through life to become a visionary activist author. Her limitations didn’t stop her from achieving her dreams. For many special children, her life story is an inspiration. Even when the technology was not that advanced, she with her hard work and dedication reached a level where no one today can think of. Helen Keller could not be bounded by conditions. Rendered deaf and blind at 19 months by scarlet fever, she learned to read and even speak, eventually graduating from Radcliff College in 1904, whereas a student she wrote The Story of My Life. This book is based on her inspiring quotes along with her brief life story. Read this book and discover Helen Keller famous and rare quotes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: UB Tech
• Release date: Feb 27, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463945063

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HELEN KELLER HEARD LOUD

Helen Keller Heard Loud

~ Helen Keller Quotes~

Author: Sreechinth C

Cover Image: Public Domain

DEDICATION

This book, Helen Keller Heard Loud is dedicated in the feet of Almighty.

"Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing."

Helen Keller

TABLE OF Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

HELEN KELLER

WORDS OF HELEN KELLER

EXTRAS

YOUR SURPRISE GIFT

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Sincerely showing thankfulness to all those who participated and supported directly and indirectly in the release of this book.

HELEN KELLER

In the history of the United States, the name of Helen Keller is mentioned as one of the most influencing personalities that people actually know very little about. Even though she was blind and deaf, as an American lecturer and author Helen Keller traveled the world over to fight for the betterment of those children who are suffering from physical disabilities. She was an embodiment of a woman of astounding intelligence, unwavering determination, unbelievable courage, and insurmountable achievement. During her lifetime she received many honors in recognition of her accomplishments.

Helen Adams Keller was born on 27th June 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Helen was the daughter of Arthur.H.Keller who was an officer in the Confederate Army, during the Civil war and her mother Katherine Adams Keller was a housewife. When she was born Keller had her senses of sight and hearing, Helen started to speak when she was just 6 months old. Unfortunately, in 1882, she was diagnosed with brain fever. However, it is still a topic of debate whether it was actually a brain fever, or it might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. It was her mother, who first noticed that she is blind and deaf after the fever Helen didn’t respond to the dinner bell and even she didn’t notice if a hand was waved in front of her face. All this happened when she was just 19 months old. As Helen grew up she developed a friendship with her family cook’s daughter, Martha Washington. Very soon they developed a great bond and invented more than 60 signs to communicate with each other. As days passed by Helen started behaving very odd, she began to scream when she gets angry and giggles uncontrollably when happy. Her relatives couldn’t accept her weird mannerisms and suggested to her parents that she should be institutionalized. Amidst all these situations, as a ray of hope, her mother came across a travelogue by Charles Dickens, American Notes. The book mainly described the successful life of Laura Bridgman, who was also blind and deaf and how education transformed her into a new individual. After reading this successful story Helen’s mother decided to dispatch her to Baltimore, Maryland to see specialist doctor J.Julian Chisolm. The doctor examined her carefully and suggested her father meet Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. During those days, Bell was working for the betterment of deaf children. According to Bell, the only solution for her recovery was to send her to the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts. The director of the institution proposed that Helen should work with the Institution’s most recent graduates, Anne Sullivan. After few days Sullivan went to Helen’s home, she very soon understood that the six-year-old Helen couldn’t connect between the objects and the letters spelled out in her hand. Sullivan then requested her parents for a place where only both of them could stay as it will help to increase the concentration of Helen. So, they moved to a cottage on the plantation.

Her formal education began in 1890; she joined the Horace Mann School in Boston where she improved her communication skills. From 1894 to 1896, she