Completar frases Helen Keller BiographyVersión en línea In this activity you have to complete Hellen Keller's Biography with regular & irregular verbs. por Sandra López Suárez 1 died traveled served understood born became graduated had visited started taught taught spelled learned wrote American lecturer and author , Helen Keller ( 1880 ? 1968 ) , was both blind and deaf . But she the world over , fighting for improvement in the education and life of the physically handicapped . Helen Adams Keller was a normal child in Tuscumbia , Alabama , on June 27 , 1880 . Her parents were Captain Arthur H . Keller and Katherine Adams Keller . Her father was a veteran of the confederate army . She speaking when she was six months old . When Helen was eighteen months old an illness developed that the doctor described as brain congestion . She a high fever for many days , and then the fever was gone . Helen was left deaf and blind from the illness . Helen a very wild child . In March 1887 , Anne Sullivan ( 1866 ? 1936 ) , a teacher at Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston , came to serve as Helen's teacher . Sullivan Keller the word " water " by using her fingers to spell letters into Helen's hand . From this she that objects had names , and that her teacher these names into her hand . This unlocked a whole new world of learning for Helen . In only three years Helen the sign language , the Braille alphabet and she could read and write . By the time she was sixteen , Keller had passed the admissions examinations for Radcliffe College ; in 1904 she with honors . This was all done with the assistance of Anne Sullivan interpreting the lectures and texts . Keller became determined to learn about the world and to improve the lives of others . With insight , energy , and deep devotion to humanity , she lectured throughout the world and thousands of letters asking for contributions to finance efforts to improve the welfare of the blind . She hospitals and helped blind soldiers . She the blind to be courageous and to make their lives rich , productive , and beautiful for others and for themselves . Sullivan as Keller's counselor and companion . When Keller in 1968 her name had become a worldwide symbol of what the human spirit can accomplish despite severe physical limitations . Text taken and adapted from the Encyclopedia of World Biography https : / / www . notablebiographies . com / Jo - Ki / Keller - Helen . htm l