![]() ![]() Despite Helen’s impairment, she still understood a lot of what was happening around her, and could complete small tasks, play games with her dog and the daughter of the family cook, and even get into mischief and danger, once nearly knocking her baby sister Mildred from the crib where she slept.Īs Helen grew, so did her desire to express herself. In the months after Helen’s illness, she clung tightly to her mother, and the two of them developed a few crude signs by which Helen could communicate her wants and needs. ![]() ![]() Helen’s fever eventually broke, but the illness left her blind, dumb, and deaf. When she was nearly two years old, however, she was struck with a sickness which gave her a high fever and which her parents and her doctor all feared she would not survive. The beginning of Helen’s life was ordinary but joyful-she lived with her parents in a small house on a large familial estate, and was a happy and intrepid child. Helen’s paternal lineage can be traced back to Switzerland, where one of her ancestors, ironically, was the first teacher of deaf children in Zurich. Helen Keller was born on June 27th, 1880 in Tuscumbia, a small town in Northern Alabama. ![]()
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