Helen keller biography questions for teacher comprehension

Helen Keller was born in 1880 in Escumbria, Alabama. She learned to talk at an early age of 6 months. She walked when she was 1 year old.

However, when she was 19 months old, after a severe fever, her mother noticed that she could neither hear or see.

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She was blind and deaf for the rest of her life.

When she was young, she and a playmate made up a sign language of about 60 signs so that they could 'talk' to each other. During the early years, Helen became very wild.

She could not hear or see and was angry all the time. Some friends or family thought she couldn't live at home anymore and should be put in a special home.

Helen's mother wanted to help her so she did some reading and found that a girl with the same problems as Helen had been able to learn to read and write.

Helen keller biography questions for teacher comprehension worksheets

Mrs. Keller took Helen to a doctor. He suggested that they go to see the famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell who had been working with the deaf. Mr. Bell sent them to see the director of the