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 ...

To them, Helen Keller was unique and marvellous ... He wrote to the Perkins Institute at Boston, and a young teacher, Miss Anne Sullivan, was sent down to be Helen’s companion and teacher.

“It’s unnerving so many young people today ... people to believe in Helen Keller is that her story involves not just one, but two geniuses. Both Keller and Anne Sullivan, Keller’s teacher ...

Helen Keller ... and longtime companion Anne Sullivan, the first person with these handicaps to acquire normal living and language skills. "If I could see," Miss Keller once said, "I would ...