This document details the life story of Helen Keller, who was born deaf and blind. It describes how at age 19 months she became ill with an illness that left her unable to see or hear. Her parents sought help from Alexander Graham Bell and were connected with Anne Sullivan, who became Helen's teacher and helped her learn to communicate through finger spelling and braille. The document outlines Helen's education and accomplishments, including graduating from Radcliffe College and becoming an author and advocate for the blind and deaf. It shares insights from Helen on how she experienced and appreciated nature without sight.

2. THE STORY OF MY LIFE
BY HELEN KELLER

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

4. Author: Helen Keller

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

6.  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.
 It describes how she withstood against her
disabilities

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

8. • 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”

9.  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
• Helen’s mother cherished her
tenderly while she was loosing
her sight little by little

10.  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.

12.  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

13.  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

14.  Water was 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.

15. • 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”

16.  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

17.  What had she
achieved?
 In 1900 she entered to
the Radcliffe college
 On 28 June 1904 Helen
graduated from Radcliffe
College earning a
Bachelor of Arts degree

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

19. 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

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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.

25. 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”

26. “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”

27. 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."

28. “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.”

29. 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.

30. “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.”

34. "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"

36. 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.

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

39. “Everything Miss Sullivan taught me she illustrated by
a beautiful story or a poem ”
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