![]() ![]() When Miss Anne Mansfield Sullivan arrived several months later, Helen’s parents feared that their unruly child couldn’t be taught, but Miss Sullivan’s patient disposition and steadfast approach led to a major breakthrough in Helen’s conception of language, and soon Helen was signing, communicating, and learning about the wide world around her. Aragnos, the director of the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston, and he suggested a teacher come to Tuscumbia to teach Helen. Alexander Graham Bell, Helen’s parents wrote to Dr. She longed to express herself more fully. As Helen grew older, the crude signs she and her parents had developed to allow her to communicate with them became insufficient. Born in June of 1880 in the small town of Tuscumbia, Alabama, Helen Keller enjoyed a happy childhood until an illness-most likely scarlet fever-left her deaf, dumb, and blind at just nineteen months old. ![]()
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