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=//**__~Helen Keller~__**//= ====Anne Sullivan is known for teaching Helen Keller, but she would never have been known if she didnt teach Helen. Helen Keller exemplified perservance by over coming being blind, deaf, and making her family miserable with her uncontrollable temper.====

====Helen became blind at the age of 19 months because of a very bad brain fever. Her parents hired Anne Sullivan to teach Helen to communicate when she was seven years old. Even though she had very bad manners Anne tried to teak her sign language but Helen never understood until she had a breakthrough. Anne was pouring cool water on Helens hand while signing the word "water" on the other hand. Once helen discovered language she constantly talked!====

====Helen's fever also left her deaf.Later in life she began speech lessons with Sarah Fuller, the principal of the Wright-Humason school. These lessons helped her learn to communicate, she even wrote a speech! Helen then graduated from the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf. After she graduated, Helen wrote a book called "The Story Of My Life".====

====When Anne first started teaching Helen, Anne couldn't controll Helen at all. Helen bit, kicked, punched, and threw wild tantrums. All Helens family ever did was give Helen candy to calm her down. This didn't work for Anne. Anne gave Helen a doll, cake (that she ate with her hands), and other treats but nothing worked. Anne and Helen moved into a cottage close to the Keller house. This time alone helped. Anne controlled Helens temper (Helen also learned good manners and never ate with her hands again!) and even taught her sign language.====

====Helen became the most known blind-deaf person ever! Even though she was blind, deaf, and had an uncontrollable temper she still succeedesd by graduating collage wiht honors and writing a book. Not bad for a blind-deaf person!====


 * //"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart "//** -Helen Keller (1880-1968)

References:
Humphrey Sandra, M. (2005). //Dare to dream! 25 extraordanary lives//. New York: Prometheus Books. 