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Ann Sullivan and Helen Keller

Have you ever had a teacher that you really liked? If you have, then you are

lucky. A good teacher can make a huge difference in a person’s life. Just take a look at
the life of Helen Keller, and you can see that this is true.
( When Helen Keller was born in Alabama in 1880, she was just like any other

5 baby. But when she was 19 months old, she got very sick. After her illness, Helen’s
mother noticed that she did not come when the dinner bell rang, and she could never

find her toys. Eventually, her mother realized that Helen was now deaf and blind. The
next years were very difficult for the Keller family. They had no way to teach Helen. She

quickly became a wild and uncontrollable child. By the time Helen was six, the family
10 knew they needed professional help for Helen.

They visited a doctor in Baltimore. He suggested a teacher named Ann
Sullivan. Ann was born almost blind. An operation had improved her sight some, but
it was still very bad. In college, she had learned to work with children with disabilities*.

She agreed to be Helen’s teacher and moved down to Alabama with the family.
15 ( Teaching Helen was a very difficult job. Ann started by trying to teach Helen

to finger spell. She would put something in Helen’s hand, a doll for example. Then, she
would “spell” the word on Helen’s hand using her finger. Helen quickly learned to copy
the movements with her own fingers, but she did not understand the connection

between the word “doll” and the toy in her hand. Then, one day Ann took Helen out

20 to the water pump. She held Helen’s hand under the cool water and spelled the word.
Suddenly Helen understood! She immediately began touching things and asking for
their spellings. That day, she learned to spell 30 new words. Thanks to Ann’s teaching,

Helen overcame her disabilities.

*disability: a condition in which someone cannot use a part of their body

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