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 ...

It took three years, 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 write. By now, Miss Sullivan was convinced ...

wrote Helen Keller. She would help change that. By Cori Brosnahan English Braille primer. Courtesy of Perkins School for the Blind Archives. Helen Keller was born in 1880, just over 50 years after ...