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    Helen Keller was born deaf and blind in 1880 in Alabama. She was unable to communicate until she was taught finger spelling by her tutor Anne Sullivan at age 6. When Anne spelled "water" into Helen's hand while pumping water, Helen made the connection between objects and their letters. With Anne's help, Helen continued her education and became the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college. Throughout her life, Helen worked to improve conditions for blind and deaf people and supported women's rights causes. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. award, for her achievements and courage in overcoming her disabilities.

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    Helen Keller was born deaf and blind in 1880 in Alabama. She was unable to communicate until she was taught finger spelling by her tutor Anne Sullivan at age 6. When Anne spelled "water" into Helen's hand while pumping water, Helen made the connection between objects and their letters. With Anne's help, Helen continued her education and became the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college. Throughout her life, Helen worked to improve conditions for blind and deaf people and supported women's rights causes. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. award, for her achievements and courage in overcoming her disabilities.

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    Helen Keller was born deaf and blind in 1880 in Alabama. She was unable to communicate until she was taught finger spelling by her tutor Anne Sullivan at age 6. When Anne spelled "water" into Helen's hand while pumping water, Helen made the connection between objects and their letters. With Anne's help, Helen continued her education and became the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college. Throughout her life, Helen worked to improve conditions for blind and deaf people and supported women's rights causes. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. award, for her achievements and courage in overcoming her disabilities.

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    Helen Keller was born deaf and blind in 1880 in Alabama. She was unable to communicate until she was taught finger spelling by her tutor Anne Sullivan at age 6. When Anne spelled "water" into Helen's hand while pumping water, Helen made the connection between objects and their letters. With Anne's help, Helen continued her education and became the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college. Throughout her life, Helen worked to improve conditions for blind and deaf people and supported women's rights causes. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. award, for her achievements and courage in overcoming her disabilities.

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    Unit 7 Think again!


    Video script
    Nobody demonstrates the importance of hard work in achieving success
    more than American author, activist, and lecturer, Helen Keller. Born in
    Alabama in 1880, Helen was deaf and blind from a young age and had no
    way of communicating. With the help of her tutor, she was able to lead an
    extraordinary life. Her story has been told in books, movies, TV series, and
    even in a play on Broadway.
    At 19 months old, Helen was diagnosed with brain feverwhat we now
    think must have been scarlet fever or meningitis. She survived the illness,
    but lost her sight and hearing. In her early years, Helen got very angry and
    frustrated because she couldnt communicate: she smashed plates on the
    floor, and even bit members of her family.
    In 1887, when Helen was six years old, her parents heard about the Perkins
    Institute for the Blind. The school sent Anne Sullivan to be Helens tutor.
    Anne started to teach Helen the names of objects using finger spelling.
    She spelled out the names in Helens hand using a different symbol for
    each letter, but at first Helen did not understand what Anne was trying to
    teach her, and she continued to get angry and frustrated.
    However, one day, Anne took Helen to a water pump. Anne put one of
    Helens hands under the water and spelled w-a-t-e-r onto her other
    hand. For the first time, Helen made the connection between objects and
    the letters Anne spelled into her hand. Helen learned 30 words that day,
    and progressed very quickly after that.
    With Annes help, Helen continued her education. At the age of 20,
    she entered the prestigious Radcliffe College and graduated four years
    later, becoming the first deaf-blind person to receive a Bachelor of Arts
    degreea degree she passed with Honors.
    Helen never stopped challenging herself: she learned to write, and she
    struggled for 25 years to learn to speak so that she could communicate
    with people better. She became a world-famous author and lecturer, and
    worked to make life better for blind and deaf-blind people.
    She also supported womens rights, in particular womens right to vote,
    and she helped to raise money for organizations such as the Helen
    Keller International Organization, the American Liberties Union, and the
    American Foundation for the Blind. In 1964, Helen received the highest
    award in the U.S.A., the Presidential Medal of Freedom. There is even a
    statue of her in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
    Due to her courage and hard work, Helen Keller overcame her disabilities
    to achieve extraordinary things.

    Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014

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