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  1. Helen Keller

    Helen Keller was both blind and deaf . But despite these disabilities, she became a skilled writer and speaker.

  2. Biography: Helen Keller for Kids

    Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was a happy healthy baby. Her father, Arthur, worked for a newspaper while her mother, Kate, took care of the home and baby Helen. She grew up on her family's large farm called Ivy Green. She enjoyed the animals including the horses, dogs, and chickens.

  3. Helen Keller

    Helen Keller was an American educator, advocate for the blind and deaf and co-founder of the ACLU. Stricken by an illness at the age of 2, Keller was left blind and deaf. Beginning in 1887, Keller ...

  4. Helen Keller

    By 1915 she testified before Congress on the improvement of the treatment of blind people. The same year she co-founded Helen Keller International to help fight blindness due to malnutrition and disease. By 1920 she assisted in founding the ACLU. When the American Federation for the Blind was started in 1921, Keller joined and became an active ...

  5. 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.

  6. Who is Helen Keller?

    Helen Keller Biography for Kids Early Life and Deaf-blind Diagnosis. Helen Keller was born Helen Adams Keller to parents Arthur Henley Keller and Catherine Everett Keller on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Helen Keller was born into a large family - she had four siblings named Mildred Campbell, Phillip Brooks, James McDonald, and William ...

  7. Helen Keller Biography

    Portrait of Helen Keller as a young girl, with a white dog on her lap (August 1887) Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880. Her parents were Kate Adams Keller and Colonel Arthur Keller. On her father's side she was descended from Colonel Alexander Spottswood, a colonial governor of Virginia, and on ...

  8. Helen Keller

    Born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, Keller was the older of two daughters of Arthur H. Keller, a farmer, newspaper editor, and Confederate Army veteran, and his second wife Katherine Adams Keller, an educated woman from Memphis. Several months before Helen's second birthday, a serious illness—possibly meningitis or scarlet fever ...

  9. PDF What Is Love

    What is Love - Helen Keller Biography for Children Early Life Helen Adams Keller was born on 27th June 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States. Her family lived on an estate called Ivy Greens, built by Helen's grandfather. Her father, Arthur Keller, spent many years as an editor for the Tuscumbia North Alabamian

  10. Helen Keller biography and timeline

    See below for a timeline of Keller's achievements. Helen Keller reading, 1907. Courtesy of Library of Congress. Helen Keller born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. June 27, 1880. Annie Sullivan arrives in ...

  11. Helen Keller for Kids

    Learn all about Helen Keller in this biography video for kids! See how Helen Keller became an inspiration to countless people and is one of the most famous w...

  12. Helen Keller Kids Museum

    The Helen Keller Kids Museum. Using text, photographs, quotations, and film footage, The Helen Keller Kids Museum provides a wealth of online information about the life and legacy of Helen Keller, a deafblind woman who changed the perception of what it means to be blind. It traces Helen Keller's life from her childhood and education under Anne ...

  13. Helen Keller Lesson for Kids: Biography & Facts

    It may sound impossible, but a woman named Helen Adams Keller learned to do all these things and more despite being blind and deaf. Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When ...

  14. Helen Keller

    Helen Keller was an author, lecturer, and crusader for the handicapped. Born in Tuscumbia, ... More than any act in her long life, her courage, intelligence, and dedication combined to make her a ...

  15. Helen Keller's Family and Home Life: A Deeper Look

    Helen Keller's Early Life and Family . Helen Keller was born in 1880, and until 1882 she was a happy, healthy child in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When she was 19 months-old, she developed a brain fever that took away her ability to see and hear. ... Both Simpson and James Keller were Arthur's children from his first marriage. James was a teen as Helen ...

  16. Helen Keller's Life and Legacy

    A Brief Biographical Timeline. 1880: On June 27, Helen Keller is born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. 1882: Following a bout of illness, Helen loses her sight and hearing. 1887: Helen's parents hire Anne Sullivan, a graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind, to be Helen's tutor.Anne begins by teaching Helen that objects have names and that she can use her fingers to spell them.

  17. Best Helen Keller Books for Kids, As Chosen by Educators

    6. DK Readers: Helen Keller by Leslie Garrett (2-4) This easy reader biography is well suited for children who are beginning to read more independently. 7. Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark by Johanna Hurwitz (2-4) This easy reader biography from a prolific children's author is a great introduction to Keller. 8.

  18. What is Love

    Spread the love. Tags: biography for children, Children's Biography, disabilities, disability, helen keller, what is love. EPUB copy -. Read Online -. Views:8969. Download Free PDF -. Downloads : 15254. In What is Love - a children's biography of Helen Keller, an excerpt from Helen Keller's book, The Story of My Life is included...

  19. Garden of Praise: Helen Keller Biography

    Born in 1880 - Died in 1968. Helen Keller at the age of 19 months, (not quite 2 years old) was a happy, healthy child. She was already saying a few words. Then she had a high fever which caused her to become deaf and blind. No longer could she see nor hear.

  20. 15 Interesting Facts about Helen Keller for kids

    Fun facts about Helen Keller. 1. Birthplace and early life: In Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880, Helen Keller was born to parents Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller. She was born healthy and could see and hear like other children, but an illness struck her at 19 months old, leaving her blind and deaf. 2.

  21. Helen Keller Biography

    Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880. Her parents were Captain Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams Keller. Her father was a veteran of the confederate army (army that fought to separate from the United States during the Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865).

  22. 'The Miracle Worker' Tells a Surprisingly Bold and Liberatory Story

    The Miracle Worker is something of a middle school staple in the United States. Helen Keller is a significant figure in American history—she was the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor's degree and a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, among other things—and the 1962 film offers an accessible way into her story.

  23. 45 Helen Keller Quotes on Life, Faith and Happiness

    Here are 45 Helen Keller quotes that reflect her varied life experiences and passions. 1. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with ...