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Helen Keller

Helen Keller was a writer, lecturer and activist. She spoke out against child labour, stood for world peace and women’s voting rights. However, she wasn’t an ordinary person.

Helen was born in 1880 and she was a healthy child. At the

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of one she got ill. After that her life couldn’t be the

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— the illness left her completely blind and deaf. When she was six she met Anne Sallivan and from then on she became Helen’s teacher and later her friend. Anne

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Helen how to communicate with tactile sign language. Time passed and

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she could connect the words and the ideas they symbolised. That was a huge step forward for Helen. Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College of Harvard University. She was the

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deaf and blind person to get a Bachelor of Arts degree. She became an inspiration and a

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of hope for thousands of people all over the world. Her story is another proof that people who are deafblind can communicate and live a full life.