World Report: March 8, 2002 Vol.7 No.19
- This Issue:
- Table of Contents
- Cover Story
- Cover Story - Spanish Version
- Mini-Lesson
- Comprehension Quiz
- Teacher's Guide and Worksheets
Helen Keller
Helen Keller was born in 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When she was a baby, an illness left her blind and deaf. It seemed she would never understand the world around her. But she went on to prove that disabilities do not stand in the way of determination.
When she was 6, her parents hired Anne Mansfield Sullivan to be her special teacher. Sullivan taught her young pupil to connect hand signs with word meanings. Keller soon learned to communicate with sign language and Braille. She even learned to speak.
She devoted her life to helping other disabled people. She started Helen Keller International to help blind people in poor countries. She met 12 U.S. Presidents. A blind person, Keller said, "has a mind that can be educated, a hand which can be trained, ambitions . . . to realize."
