Helen Keller question?

Question

How did Helen Keller became an author when she's deaf and blind? I just don't get how it's possible. Is she even real?

Answer 1

ginny w I couldn't have said it better myself.

Answer 2

yes she is real and she learned one day by her teacher how to understand things and when she became an adult she had massive surgery done to correct her seeing but she still had to wear glasses

Answer 3

Helen Keller became deaf and blind after an illness when she was a small child.

She learned to communicate years later, using a simple form of sign language and because she could communicate, she could learn.

Although she was deaf, she was taught to make sounds, then words and was able to tell her story and subsequently, tell of her life, her ambitions, hopes and dreams.

Answer 4

1880–1968, American author and lecturer, blind and deaf from an undiagnosed illness at the age of 19 months (believed to be scarlet fever), b. Tuscumbia, Ala. In 1887 she was put under the charge of Anne Sullivan (see Macy, Anne Sullivan), who was her teacher and taught her sign language she was her companion until Sullivan's death in 1936. As a pupil Helen Keller made rapid progress and was graduated from Radcliffe in 1904 with honors. She lectured all over America and in Europe and Asia, raising funds for the training of the blind and promoting other social causes. Her books include The Story of My Life (1903), The World I Live In (1908), Helen Keller's Journal, 1936–1937 (1938), Let Us Have Faith (1940), and The Open Door (1957).

helen keller never regained her sight that was ann sullivan who was a 20-year-old graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind, who had regained useful sight through a series of operations, had come to the Kellers through the sympathetic interest of Alexander Graham

Miss Sullivan began her task with a doll that the children at Perkins had made for her to take to Helen. By spelling "d-o-l-l" into the child's hand, she hoped to teach her to connect objects with letters. Helen quickly learned to form the letters correctly and in the correct order

Answer 5

You can be deaf and blind and still write.  You just can't be stupid.

Answer 6

she wrote b-4 she waz deaf nd blind

Answer 7

Anyone one be an author if they've got a story to tell. If the "author" is incapable of actually writing the story himself or herself, that person can dictate the story to someone who will then transcribe it it a readable form. And there IS such a thing as "tactile sign language", if you were wondering, but it's rare for blindness and deafness to occur in the same person.

Answer 8

She wrote using a typewriter that has braille on the letters.

Braille is a series of 6 raised dots in alternating patterns that is used by the blind to read.

She used the manual sign language alphabet to talk to people, learned to speak, and could lipread using her fingers on a persons nose, lips, and throat.

The source is the section on Helen Keller on the American Foundation for the Blind website.

Answer 9

Snowbarbie's got it right.