![]() ![]() ![]() However, unable to communicate properly, she was considered to be badly behaved for example, eating from the plates of anyone on the table with her fingers. ![]() For the first few years of her life, she was only able to communicate with her family through a rudimentary number of signs she had a little more success communicating with the six-year-old daughter of the family cook. When she was only 19 months old, she experienced a severe childhood illness, which left her deaf and blind (only a very partial sight). Helen Keller was born 27 June 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. – Helen Keller, On Optimism (1903) Short Biography of Helen Keller “Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. ![]() Her public profile helped de-stigmatise blindness and deafness, and she was seen as a powerful example of someone overcoming difficult circumstances. However, she became the first deaf-blind person to attain a bachelor’s degree and became an influential campaigner for social, political and disability issues. Helen became deaf and blind as a young child and had to struggle to overcome her dual disability. Helen Keller (1880-1968) was an American author, political activist and campaigner for deaf and blind charities. ![]()
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