Revisit the remarkable career and life of an icon who became a human rights pioneer. Revisit the complex life and legacy of the author, advocate and human rights pioneer. Helen Keller, who was deaf ...

Alexander Graham Bell encouraged Helen Keller to practice oralism, where deaf people communicate through speech and lip-reading instead of sign language. “Oralism in general, I think, has a very ...

This has nothing to do with music, but it is pretty amazing. I always wondered how Helen Keller learned how to speak. At the end of the video Helen Keller says, “I am not dumb now.” Saw it at ...

The relationship between Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller went beyond pupil and teacher. It was based in Sullivan's ability to open up the world for Keller. Deaf, blind, and mute due to a childhood ...

A new “American Masters” documentary premiering Tuesday promises to go beyond the familiar mythology of one of Alabama’s most exceptional people, Helen Keller. Keller lost her sight and hearing in ...

While the world marked International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Dec. 3, the history of people with disabilities is still not fully taught in schools. In the U.S., if American schoolchildren ...

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