Great women: Helen Keller -Paragraph

Helen Keller is a great humanitarian. She deeply cared for the people who were sick and injured. These disabled people could not use a part of their body. Helen worked for these disabled people all through her life. Helen Keller was born in 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her father was Captain Arthur Keller and mother Katherine Adams Keller. Her family was not rich and its main source of income was cotton plantation. Helen was quite healthy when she was born. But in 1882 she had a high fever and she became blind, deaf and dumb. At that time her father was a newspaper editor. He saw Alexander Graham Bell about Helen. Bell, the inventor of telephone, was working with deaf children at that time. Later Bell met Helen and her parents. He suggested Perkins School for the Blind in Boston for Helen. Captain Arthur went to the director of the school Michael Anaganos. Mr Anaganos sent one of his best students called Annie Sullivan to help Helen in 1887. Annie greatly helped Helen to communicate. Helen Keller started her formal Education in 1890. She began to take classes at the Horace Mann School for the deaf in Boston. From 1894 to 1896, she attended the Wright Humason School for the deaf in New York City. There she worked to improve her communication skills and studied regular academic subjects. Helen gradually made up her mind to attend college. In 1896 she attended the Cambridge School for Young Ladies, Massachusetts. Later, she was admitted to Redcliffe College. Here she learnt reading through a special technique called Braille. She also learnt here how to type. Annie Sullivan was always with her for help. She sat by her in the class and interpreted lectures and texts. In 1904, Helen received a BA degree with honours from that college. Helen Keller spent the rest of her life trying to make it easier for disabled people to learn. Helen Keller died on June 1, 1968.