Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught Keller language, including reading and writing. After an education at both specialist and mainstream schools, Keller attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree
She was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century.
0:00 Introduction
0:03 Captain Arthur Keller and Kate Adams Keller lived in Tuscumbia
2:28 They met Dr Michael Anagnos, director of the Perkins Institute for the Blind
2:36 Michael Anagnos considered Helen's case and immediately recommended
4:11 Anne insisted that Helen should dress herself and brush her own hair.
6:37 Helen developed great confidence
7:56 Mark Twain, the famous author of Adventures of Tom Sawyer
9:47 Helen became the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.