“In this room sits a remarkable woman…” starts the 1954 documentary on Helen Keller. “She does not see the room, or the book she’s reading. She sees nothing. She doesn’t hear the rustling of the curtains behind her.”
Helen Keller, probably one the most inspiring deaf and blind persons in history, as well as a disability rights advocate and American author, learned to communicate with a finger system with her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Each letter has a sign, and Anne would spell out words in the palm of Helen’s hand. Did you ever see Helen Keller’s smile when she first started to communicate? Or when she spelled out her first word W-A-T-E-R? She was ecstatic about engaging in communication. She made contact!
