• Helen Keller was born on 27th june 1880 in Tuscumbia

Alabama.
• Stricken by illness in 1882.
• Graduating in 1904
• Her father served as an officer in confederate Army
during civil war.
• Helen Keller started speaking at the age of six months
and started walking at the age of sixteen.

Early life of Helen

Keller
• In 1882 , Helen contracted an illness called “Brain
Fever”.
• It was first noticed by her mother.
• She was only nineteen years old when her mother first
encountered her disease.
• At the age of seven , she and her companion invented 60
signs to communicate.

Loss of sight and

Hearing
• She studied in Horace Mann school for deaf in Boston in
1890.
• She took 25 years to learn to speak.
• From 1894 to 1896 , attended wright humason school for
the deaf in New York …

Formal Education
Contributions of Helen Keller
 #1 SHE MADE MANY CONTRIBUTIONS TO HUMAN
RIIGHTS
 #2 SHE WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY LEADER
 #3 SHE CO-FOUNDED HELEN KELLER
INTERNATIONAL IN 1915
 #4 SHE BECAME A MEMBER OF AMERICAN
FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND IN 1921 UNTIL
HER DEATH IN 1968
 #5 KELLER WAS A PROMINENT POLITICAL AND
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
#6 SHE WAS A LEADING MEMBER OF THE
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND
#7 KELLER WAS A WORLD RENOWNED SPEAKER
#8 SHE WAS AWARDED THE PRESIDENTIAL
MEDAL OF FREEDOM IN 1964
#9 HELEN KELLER IS RANKED AS ONE OF THE
MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY
#10 SHE REMAINS AN INSPIRATIONAL ICON FOR
MILLIONS ACROSS THE WORLD
• Writings .
• Overseas visits
• Portraits and documentaries
• Honors
• Archieval material
• Later life
• Death and legacy

Later Life