Louis Braille had wanted the blind to gain access to the worlds of knowledge contained in books. When Helen Keller died on June 1, 1968 at the age of 87, she had not only read more than most ...

The name Helen Keller conjures up, for many people, a deaf-blind-mute girl learning to communicate via sign language. It is a scene straight out of “The Miracle Worker,” the biographical play ...

In the next few years, her books—“Optimism ... but by the time that she was eleven, Helen Keller knew the alphabet, both by palm-manual and Braille raised type, and could read and ...

Helen Keller was both deaf and blind ... disable people – she persuaded Congress to change the law so that books in braille would be made available in libraries. She wrote many books on social ...