![]() She spent a couple of years learning Braille at the Perkins Institution, after which she began a slow process of learning to speak and lip-read. The impact she had was remarkable: within months, Keller had learned to feel objects and associate them with words spelt out by finger signals on her palm, read sentences by feeling raised words on cardboard and make sentences by arranging words in a frame. Sullivan worked with Keller from 1887 until she died in 1936. ![]() When she was six, Alexander Graham Bell examined her and then recommended that she start working with Anne Sullivan (Macy), a teacher from the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston. Hellen Keller was born in Alabama, the U.S., on Jshe became blind and deaf after being affected by an illness when she was 19 months old. My tribute to women writers powers on with Helen Keller, an American author, lecturer and activist for the rights of blind and deaf people. Hello and welcome to #TheWomanAlchemist monthly feature for June. The PeopleAlchemist Edit: #theWomanAlchemist #Feature #womanofthemonth – Helen Keller ![]()
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