Name

Syeda Attiqa Batool

Sap id
70056370
Presented to
Mam Abida
Subject
Public speaking
The Life of Helen Keller
 Early
Life
• Born June 1880 in
Tuscumbia,
Alabama
• Full sight & hearing
• Father Captain
Arthur & Mother
Kate
 Illnes
• Fever at 19
s
months
• She was left deaf
• & blind
Became a very
difficult child
• throwing temper
tantrums often
At age 6 visited Dr.
Graham Bell who
suggested Anne
Sullivan as a tutor
 Anne
• Sullivan
Early life of Anee sullivan
• March 3, 1887 came to live
with the Keller’s
• Moved into an empty
cottage with Helen to work
one on one with her
She was very strict with
•
Helen.
 Finger Spelling
• Anne would sign words
into the palm of
Helen’s hand
• At first it didn’t click
with Helen at all
• One day Helen put her
hand under water
while Anne spelled it
into her hand
• From then on if Helen
could touch what
Anne was spelling she
could remember it
Sign Language
 Tadoma

Tadoma is a method of
communication used by
deaf blind people, in which
the deaf blind person
places his thumb on the
speaker's lips and his
fingers ...
 Educati
• Primarily her
techer was Ms Anee on
• sullivan
1888- entered
Perkins Institute
for the Blind
•
1898- returned to
MA & entered
The Cambridge
School for Young
• Ladies
1990- gained
admittance to
Radcliff College,
 Accomplishment
s
• Became a world-
famous speaker and
• author.
Founded a non-profit
organization for
• preventing
blindness.
Helen & Anne traveled
all over the world to
over 39 countries.
Book “story of my
life”
 Helen Keller’s Death

• Helen Keller died

peacefully in her sleep
on June 1, 1968, at the
age of 87 by natural
causes at Arcan Ridge
 Character cannot be developed
in ease and quiet. Only through
experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired
and success achieved.
-Helen Keller