1. Close your eyes and ears for five
seconds…….
What do you feel?

2. Author: Helen Keller

3.  She, is both deaf and blind.
 Who would believe such a person would
write books on her own.

4.  This book shows that Helen’s life is neither
a miracle nor a joke
 She published “The story of my life” when
she was twenty.
 Itdescribes how she withstood against her
disabilities

5. • She was born on 27
June 1880 in
Tuscumbia, Alabam
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• She was the child of
Captain Auther H.
Keller

6. • At the age of 19 month little
Helen was caught by a fever
which caused her to be deaf and
blind
“Gradually I got used to the silence and darkness
that surrounded me and forgot that it had ever
been different”

7. • Helen’s mother cherished her
tenderly while she was loosing
her sight little by little
 The only word she could remember was “Water”, this
was her only word in her world at that time
 A shake of head for NO, a nod for YES was her
communicate

8.  She was struggling to be free. Free from the world of
misery & bitterness where she experienced failures when
expressing herself
 Her parents suffered too. They searched for teachers
having the method to teach a child who’s both deaf and
blind.
 Helen’s parents were able to find Alexander Grahm Bell
and with his help they were able to find a way to educate
little Helen.

10.  Ms. Anne Sullivan was
a light to Helen’s lonely
and dark life.
 Anne was so friendly
and kind to the poor
girl.
 Helen soon showed
that she is capable and
learned quickly

11.  Finger play, Spelling word into her hand
 First word she learned was doll.
• At the age of ten
Helen had
mastered Braille as
well as the manual
alphabet and even
learned to use the
typewriter

12.  Waterwas the word which Helen couldn’t
understand easily.
 Ms.Sullivan put Helen’s hand under water
coming out from the pump and spelled w-
a-t-e-r to her hand
 When she realized what water means she
rejoiced.

13. • Ms. Sullivan used
cardboard slips having
raised letters to teach her
words
“One day, Miss Sullivan tells me, I pinned the word
girl on my pinafore and stood in the wardrobe. On
the shelf I arranged the words, is, in, wardrobe.
Nothing delighted me so much as this game”

14.  Primarily her teacher was Ms. Anne
Sullivan
 In 1888 entered to Perkins School in
Boston
 Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in
New York City in 1894
 In 1896 - Entered Cambridge College for
Young Ladies

15.  In1900 she entered to
the Radcliffe college
 On 28 June 1904
Helen graduated from
Radcliffe College
earning a Bachelor of
Arts degree
 What had she
achieved?

16.  Temple and Harvard Universities in the
United States
 Glasgow and Berlin Universities in Europe
 Delhi University in India
 Witwatersrand University in South Africa

17. She also received an honorary Academy
Award in 1955 as the inspiration for the
documentary about her life, Helen Keller
in Her Story.
In 1964 awarded the Presidential Medal
of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian
award, by President Lyndon Johnson

18. In 1919 Helen starred in a movie on her life.
But it was a failure financially. But that movie
led to a Vaudeville tour for four years.

19. It began in 1930. At first they went to the
British Isles for summer vacations. She met
and visited King George and Queen Mary at
Buckingham Palace in 1931. There were
visits to France, Yugoslavia, and Japan.

20. In October, 1935 her dearest friend, her
teacher died.
During the second world war she visited
disabled soldiers. After the war she went to
Germany, Africa, Latin America, India and
other places.

21. Helen retires from public life In October
1961 Helen suffered the first of a series of
strokes, and her public life was to draw to a
close.
On June 1, 1968, at Arcan Ridge, Helen
Keller died peacefully in her sleep.

23. To a normal person sun is
light and warmth.
But to a blind person?
In little Helen’s own words
“It seemed to me that there could be
nothing more beautiful than the sun,
whose warmth makes all things grow”

24. “I learned how the sun and the rain make to
grow out of the ground every tree”
“She sends the sunshine and rain to make
them grow”
“I think the sunshine is Nature's warm
smile, and the raindrops are her tears”

25. Blindness or deafness is not a problem to
love the nature.
“The best and most beautiful things in the
world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart."
Nature is "a feeling, a love and an appetite."

26. “I think you will be glad to hear that these
poems have taught me to enjoy and love
the beautiful springtime, even though I
cannot see the fair, frail blossoms which
proclaim its approach, or hear the joyous
warbling of the home-coming birds. Sweet
Mother Nature can have no secrets from
me when my poet is near.”

27. Few know what joy it is to feel the roses
pressing softly into the hand, or the
beautiful motion of the lilies as they sway
in the morning breeze.

28. “Even in the days before my teacher came,
I used to feel along the square stiff
boxwood hedges, and, guided by the
sense of smell, would find the first violets
and lilies.”
“There, too, after a fit of temper, I went to
find comfort and to hide my hot face in the
cool leaves and grass.”

32. "The public must learn that the blind man is
neither genius nor a freak nor an idiot. He
has a mind that can be educated, a hand
which can be trained, ambitions which it is
right for him to strive to realise, and it is the
duty of the public to help him make the best
of himself so that he can win light through
work"

34. In 1915, the Permanent Blind
War Relief Fund, later called
the American Braille Press, was
founded. She was a member of
its first board of directors.

36. Helen joined American
Foundation for the Blind in 1921
and worked for the organization
for over 40 years.

37. “I WILL NOT JUST
LIVE MY LIFE. I
WILL NOT JUST
SPEND MY LIFE. I
WILL INVEST MY
LIFE."

38. There are many valuable things
we can learn from “The story of
my Life”

39. “ I knew that there were
obstacles in the way; but I was
eager to overcome them”

40. “That living word awakened my
soul, gave it light hope, joy, set it free!”
“There were barriers still, it is true, but
barriers that could in time be swept
away”

41. “I took my "Reader for Beginners" and
hunted for the words I knew; when I found
them my joy was like that of a game of hide-
and-seek”

42. I slip back many times, I fall, I
stand still, I run against the
edge of hidden obstacles, I
lose my temper…
…and find it again and Every one who wishes to
keep it better, I trudge gain true knowledge must
on, I gain a little, I feel climb the Hill Difficulty
encouraged, I get more alone, and since there is no
eager and climb higher royal road to the summit, I
and begin to see the must zigzag it in my own way
widening horizon

43. …feeling like a fairy on a rosy cloud
“I spent many happy hours in my tree of
paradise, thinking fair thoughts and dreaming
bright dreams”

44. She knew the beauty of inner strength and
power of the feelings, more than anyone
else…

45. A woman with great
patience, compassion,
love, kindness,
determination & optimistic
attitude
It’s quiet worthwhile to focus on her
teacher Anne Sullivan’s character
through the words of Helen Keller

46. “You cannot touch the
clouds, you know; but
you feel the rain and
know how glad the
flowers and thirsty
earth are to have it
after a long day. You
cannot touch love
either; but you feel the
sweetness that it
pours into everything.
Without love you
would not be happy or
want to play”

47. A powerful teaching methodology
Adhering to the principles of effective child
education
The reference to the nature

48. “She linked my earliest thoughts with
nature and made me feel that “birds and
flowers and I were happy peers””
She knew the best for her…
A gradual but effective teaching procedure
she followed

49. “Everything Miss Sullivan taught me she
illustrated by a beautiful story or a poem ”
Creativity and Imagination
Key ways of Teaching and Learning

50. Any Q’s?

52.  Chamila Wijayarathna
 Maduranga Siriwardena
 Nadeeshaan Gunasinghe
 Dinithi Sumanaweera
 Kelum Deshapriya