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Glimpses of Great Souls
08 | January 2015

ave you ever
imagined what it
must feel like to be
born healthy with all five
senses, and then having some
of them being taken away due
to illness? Well Helen Keller
lived through that. Helen
Adams Keller was born on
June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia,
Alabama. Keller was born with
her senses of sight and
hearing, and started speaking
when she was just 6 months
old. She started walking at the
age of 1.
In 1882, however, Keller
contracted an illness—called
"brain fever" by the family
doctor—that produced a high
body temperature. Within a
few days after the fever
broke, Keller's mother
noticed that her daughter
didn't show any reaction
when the dinner bell was
rung, or when a hand was
waved in front of her face.
Keller had lost both her sight
and hearing. She was just 18
months old.
As Keller grew into childhood,
she developed a limited
method of communication
with her companion, Martha
Wa s h i n g t o n , t h e y o u n g
daughter of the family cook.
The two had created a type of