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How did Helen Keller become deaf and blind? Helen Keller was diagnosed with scarlet fever. Scarlet fever is when you get rashes around your whole body and inside and outside your mouth. This affect struck Helen and left her blind deaf and muted.

What was her life like as a child? Where did she live? She was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her life was the same as everyother child except she was deaf and blind and muted. She took special classes but that was it. It was also hard for Helen because she was ordinary but didn't get to play with or talk to other children.

Did she have any siblings? With whom did she live? What were her parents’ names? Yes, she had one sister, a brother and two step siblings. She lived with her mother. Helen's father's name was Author Keller and her mom's name was Kate Adams-Keller.

What did Anne Sullivan do to help Helen Keller? How did she teach her? Anne made things easier for her because she went through the same thing and overcame it. Anne helped Helen by taking her hand and feeling things she made charts for her to follow and even more to help her feel the same as everyone else.

What was Anne Sullivan’s life like before and after meeting Helen Keller? Anne was blind too. After numerous suguries she got her site back she began teaching deaf and blind children.

What is Braille? Braille is a chart of dots where numbers and letters are fromed into dots and blind people can feel them and get around just like us.

What is fingerspelling? Fingerspelling is when blind people use their finger to spell out things. Like if I were blind i would but my fingers on dots and i could somehow tell what it read.

What is the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston? Its a school where blinf people learn everything we do in school except one extra thing, they learn about how to make it in the world with their condition. This is where Helen Keller went to school with chldren just like her and it really helped to know that there were people similar to her.

Did Helen Keller learn to speak? When she turned ten she learned to speak. It was really unexpected because she stop speaking when she was 19 months and reagained her speaking ability in her tenth year.

Where did she go to college? She entered Cambridge School in 1898. She entered Radcliffe in the fall of 1900 and got her batchelors degree of arts cum laude in 1904.

What was the name of her autobiography? Helen Keller's autobiography is named "The Story of My Life".

What did Helen Keller do for the American Foundation for the Blind? Helen Keller served as a counselor and raised money for the AFB and was and activist for them.

Why is Helen Keller famous even today? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">She showed she could do anything that you set your mind to. She went to college, horseback rode,read, writed and even did things that people that aren't blind do. She made a difference and tried and succeeded in her life.