Helen recovered from her illness, but she could not see or hear. Before she was two years old, she became very ill. For example, one history text used in Alabama fourth grade classrooms starting in 2000, states: “Helen Keller was a normal, healthy baby when she was born in Tuscumbia in June 1880. The play was also adapted to a film of the same title.īut “The Miracle Worker” (written by William Gibson) is just a dramatization of Keller’s real experience as a deafblind child, said Elsa Sjunneson, a historian, writer and disability rights activist.Ī similar story is commonly found in history textbooks. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) (Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)Įvery year, the town of Tuscumbia, Alabama, puts on a production of the “The Miracle Worker” at Helen Keller’s birthplace, Ivy Green. Blind, deaf and mute from the age of one, she was taught to read Braille, speak and lipread with her fingers by teacher Anne Sullivan. 1904: American lecturer and writer Helen Adams Keller (1880 - 1968) on the day of her graduation from Radcliffe College, Massachusetts.
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