Helen Keller

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Helen Keller was a happy and healthy baby until, at the age of nineteen months, she was suddenly struck down by a terrifying illness. When she recovered she could neither hear nor see - her world was one of totál silence and darkness. Gradually she forgót all the words she had known and stopped speaking. She was locked in an impenetrable world where she couldn't communicate with anyone. After weeks of fighting and struggling to reach Helen by shaping letters onto her hands, a young teacher, named Anne Suliivan, broke through and made contact with the frustrated child. After that breakthrough into the everyday world Helen and Anne became inseparable. Once Helen Keller could communicate - feeling people's lips and throats as they spoke and spelling onto their hands - she was totally committed to helping others with problems similar to her own. She devoted her life to touring all over the world in the name of the American Foundation for the Blind. She fought for the rights of people... Tovább

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Helen Keller was a happy and healthy baby until, at the age of nineteen months, she was suddenly struck down by a terrifying illness. When she recovered she could neither hear nor see - her world was one of totál silence and darkness. Gradually she forgót all the words she had known and stopped speaking. She was locked in an impenetrable world where she couldn't communicate with anyone. After weeks of fighting and struggling to reach Helen by shaping letters onto her hands, a young teacher, named Anne Suliivan, broke through and made contact with the frustrated child. After that breakthrough into the everyday world Helen and Anne became inseparable. Once Helen Keller could communicate - feeling people's lips and throats as they spoke and spelling onto their hands - she was totally committed to helping others with problems similar to her own. She devoted her life to touring all over the world in the name of the American Foundation for the Blind. She fought for the rights of people with special needs and campaigned for many humanitarian causes. In spite of her own situation, Helen Keller devoted her life to giving hope and love to others. She had triumphed over cruel physical disabilities to achieve a brilliant career as a writer, feminist, social activist and campaigner on behalf of people with special needs all over the world. Vissza