Adam Hellen Keller was born a healthy child in Tuscumbia , Alabama , United States on June 27, 1880 in some place that is known by the name " Ivy Green " . From his father , he was a descendant of Alexander Spottswood a colonial governor of Virginia who also has a family relationship with families with young hero - North America . From his mother , he has a blood relationship with the families new England including Hales , Everetts , and the Adamses . His father was Captain Arthur Keller , a newspaper editor North Alabamian . Captain Arthur Keller also has a strong interest in the public life and is an influential person in their environment . In 1885 under the Cleveland administration , he was made Marshal of North Alabama .
Diseases that afflict Helen Keller at the age of 19 months making it deaf and blind before he learned how to read and write . At that time he was suspected of suffering from brain fever and perhaps now more correctly known as scarlet fever . Because the disease is in line with its growth , she became a wild child and non-adherent and clearly does not know the world around him .
Helen keller new life began in March 1887 when he was about 7 years old . Today was the day 's most important that he always remembered in his life , he was the arrival of a woman from Tuscumbia Anne Mansfield Sullivan who became his teacher . Miss Sullivan , a woman in her 20s specifically the Blind School graduate named Perkin School . He is a man who gets his eyesight back through a series of operations . He came over unjuran sympathetic Alexander Graham Bell who is a family acquaintance Anne . Since that day , the person Edua , a teacher - pupil inseparable until his death in early 1936.
Miss Sullivan began the task of changing the uncontrolled child become a successful figure by giving dolls that are made in children from Perkin school ( a special school for the disabled who then made especially for Helen ) . With spell doll ( dolls ) by hand , he hopes to connect objects with letters . Helen turns quickly learn the proper methods as well , but he does not know how to pronounce the words . For several days , he had a lot to learn to spell new words , but in a way that can not be understood by others .
One day he and a " teacher " - calls for Sullivan - Helen went to the open well pump . Miss Sullivan began to pump out the water and put Helen's hand under the water faucet . As soon as the water touched her hand , he gently tried to spell the word ' water ( water ) through the helen hand only then increasingly faster . Suddenly, the signal can be understood by the mind Helen . He finally figured out that the water ( water ) is a remarkable substance flowing cold hands. Once he understood , he stopped and touched the ground and asked for her spelling . At nightfall, he had to learn 30 new words .
When he get education , he learned quickly mastered the alphabet , both manual and special embossed letters for the blind as well as improve the ability to read and write . In 1890, when she was 10 years old , he tried to learn to speak . Somehow he knew that a deaf-blind girl in Norway has been able to speak well . Miss Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School is the first to be a vocal teacher for him .
Since he was little , he always said one day I would go to college and eventually he proved it . In 1898 , he made it into a school for young ladies Cambrige before she entered Radcliffe College in the fall 1900 season and finish school in 1904 with cum laude achievement . During the following years until he died in 1936 , Anne Sullivan always be beside , continuous spell book after book , lecture -by- lecture through her hand .
His formal education ended when he received a Bachelor 's degree , but throughout his life he always learned informally the things that are important to modern society . With extensive knowledge and the many achievements in the field of education , he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Temple University and Harvard University seta from Glasgow University in Scotland ; Berlin , Germany ; Delhi , India , and Witwatersran in Johannesburg South Africa . He is also an honorary participant institute for education in Scotland .
In 1905 , Anne Sullivan married John Macy , a critic and a prominent socialist . Marriage does not change the teacher-pupil relationship . Helen eventually stayed with Anne and her husband . Both continue to provide education and activity time for Helen . During still a student at Radcliffe , Helen began a career writing and then practiced for nearly 50 years . In 1903 , The Story of My llife ( my story ) appeared in serial form in the Ladies Home Journal , and later appeared in book form . Is the work of the most popular and have been translated into 50 languages including Marathi , Pusthu , Tagalog and Vedu . Also made in the form of a thin book editions in the United States . Other publication is : Optimistic ; An Essay ; The World I Live In ; The song of the stone wall ; Out of the Dark ; My Religion ; Midstream - my later life ; Peace at Eventide ; Helen Keller in Scotland ; Helen Keller's Journal ; Let us have faith ; Teacher , Anne Sullivan Macy and the open door .
Helen Keller is a strong woman who was the inspiration for the World , and he was known as a fighter for women's rights , advocates for the disabled as well as productive and successful author .
Helen Keller could prove that physical limitations can not restrain a man to be successful , as long as there is confidence , hard work and passion

