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June 27, 2010 Helen Keller Day
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Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She developed a fever at 18 months of age. Afterwards, Keller was blind, deaf, and mute. However through the extraordinary tutelage of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan of the Perkins School for the Blind, Helen was taught sign language and Braille. The story of the teacher and her pupil has been retold in William Gibson's play and film, "The Miracle Worker." At age 10, Keller learned to speak. Sarah Fuller of the Horace Mann School was her first speech teacher.

In 1898, Helen entered the Cambridge School for Young Ladies. In the autumn of 1900, Keller entered Radcliffe College. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude in 1904. In 1915, Keller joined the first Board of Directors of the Permanent Blind Relief War Fund, later known as the American Braille Press. In 1924, the young woman started the Helen Keller Endowment Fund. In the same year, she joined the staff of the American Foundation for the Blind as a counselor on national and international relations.

None of this would have been possible without dedicated TEACHERS!!

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