Helen Keller

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heard of that helps children
with disabilities. She did not really understand that words stood for
things in the world. She did not know what words meant. Although she did
not give up easily.(Howell 1)
Up until the age of seven, when her teacher Anne Sullivan put her
hand under water did she know that things in the world had meanings. Anne
being half blind herself had the ways of knowing how to teach Helen.
In about two hours she had mastered over sixty words. Her and Anne
developed a way of communicating through touching of the palm of the hand.
After this experience she later talked about it.

“there was a strange stir within me,-a misty consciousness, a sense of
something remembered. It was as if I had come back to life after being
dead . . . I understood that it was possible for me to communicate with
other people by these signs. Thoughts that ran forward and backward
came to me quickly,-thoughts that seemed to start in my brain spread all
over me. I ...

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