Helen Keller was an incredible woman who, despite being deaf and blind since she was a baby, managed to graduate from college, succeed as a writer and speaker, and combat social inequality in the world. In this video documentary with English subtitles I tell you the complete biography of Helen Keller. #HelenKeller #Biography
Although little known in Spain, Helen Keller was a famous American writer, political activist and lecturer who managed to develop a prolific activity despite being deprived, from her earliest childhood, of the senses of sight and hearing. His story of effort and improvement is worth telling.
Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. His father, Henley Keller, had been a captain in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and worked as editor of the 'Tuscumbia North Alabamian' newspaper. His mother, Catherine, was the daughter of Southern Colonel Charles Adams. Helen's family had belonged to the slave elites before the war, but after the conflict they lost much of their wealth and status.
When she was only 19 months old, Helen contracted a disease that doctors described as "acute congestion of the stomach and brain." It could be scarlet fever or meningitis; in any case, as a result of that illness, he lost his senses of sight and hearing. As she herself described in her autobiography, it was like "living at sea, in the middle of a dense fog."
Helen could only communicate with Martha Washington, the daughter of the family cook, who was two years older than she and somehow understood her address. At seven years of age, Helen had about 60 signals with which to communicate with her family, and she was able to distinguish people by the vibration of her steps.
However, it was very frustrating for him not to be able to communicate and he would have fits of rage and tantrums because of feeling different. Her family thought they would never be able to educate her, but one day her mother read Charles Dickens's book Notes from America, which told the story of Laura Bridgman, the first deafblind American girl who, half a century earlier, had received a formal education and had learned to read braille. Inspired by the woman's story, Helen's mother asked her husband to take the little girl to Baltimore for an ENT specialist Julian Chisolm to see. This doctor recommended that they speak with Alexander Graham Bell, who, apart from being famous for patenting the telephone, was a renowned speech therapist and worked with deaf children in Washington. Bell, in turn, advised them to go to the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the same school in South Boston where Laura Bridgman had been educated. There, the director of the institute asked a 20-year-old visually impaired girl, a former student at that center, to become Helen's instructor. Her name was Anne Sullivan.
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Screenplay: Pedro Estrada and Raquel de la Morena
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