My Teacher-Helen Keller| I semester B.Com/BBA|English Literature
visit website https://sugarybloom.blogspot.com/ 6. MY TEACHER Helen Keller About the author: Helen Adams Keller, the American author, political activist and a lecturer was born on June 27 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama to Captain Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller. In 1882,when she was 19 months old, she was stricken by an illness that left her blind and deaf. In 1886, according to the advice of an ENT specialist her parents contacted Alexander Graham Bell, who was working with deaf children at that time. Bell advised them to contact Perkins Institute for the Blind. The director of the institute, asked former student Anne Sullivan, to become Helen Keller's instructor. That was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship with her teacher. Anne Sullivan, came rd to her house on March 3 , 1887 and helped her make tremendous progress with her ability to communicate .In May, ...