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How did Helen Keller become deaf and blind? What was it called? When Helen Keller waas 18 months old her doctor said that she had an illness.Her illness is called Scarlet Fever.Scarlet Fever is caused by exotoin released by streptoccus pyogenes which is a germ that can kill you if it gets inside of your body.It can even leave you parlized, but in Helen Kellers' case it left her deaf and blind.

What was her life like as a child? Where did she live? Little Helen lived in Tuscumbia,Alambama.Her life after the illness was very wild,unruly,then she would scream and kick when she was angry.Then she would laugh and giggle when she was happy.But before the illness she was the most happiest little girl in the world.

Did she have any siblings? With whom did she live? What were her parents’ names? Yes,Helen Keller had 1 big brother and 1 little brother.She lived with her parents.Her fathers' name is Captain Authur H. Keller,and her mothers' name is Katherine Adamas Keller.

What did Anne Sullivan do to help Helen Keller? How did she teach her? Anne Sullivan helped Helen Keller by using her fingers to teach her the names of objects.She taught her by doing sighn language in her hands to let her feel what what Anne Sullivan was trying to spell out to her.

What was Anne Sullivan’s life like before and after meeting Helen Keller? Befor meeting Helen Keller Anne Sullivan was a teacher for people that was deaf and blind,but befor she was teaching she was deaf and blind until she got surgery on her eyes so that she could see and after that she learned how to start speaking herself.After meeting Helen Keller Anne Sullivan started to use a different way of speaking to the deaf and blind to teach her students at the school that she works at.

What is Braille? Brail is a language that the blind use to communicate to each other and/or to know how to read.

What is fingerspelling? Fingerspelling is a Sign-Language that uses your fingers to communicate to another person that knows how to use finger spelling.

What is the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston? Perkins School for the blind is an extra special school for the deaf and blind in Boston.

Did Helen Keller learn to speak? Yes Helen Keller learned how to speak later on in her years because she went to school to learn how to speak.

Where did she go to college? She went to colllage at the Radcliff Collage.

What was the name of her autobiography? The name of her autobiography is called "The Story of My Life."

What did Helen Keller do for the American Foundation for the Blind? For the American Foundation she taught people of her own illness they same way that she was taught by Anne Sullivan which is Sign-Language.

Why is Helen Keller famous even today? She is famous even till this day because she faught through a very deadly illness that could have made her life more difficult to go through.