Helen Keller and Her teacher Anne Macy Sullivan explain how Helen learned to speak. Year:1928. TRANSCRIPT: Anne Sullivan speaking: “When I first saw Helen Keller, She was six years and eight months had been blind and deaf and mute since her eighteenth month as a result of an had no way of communicating with those around her except for a few imitative signs that she had made for herself. A push meant go and a pull meant come and so on. She had observed that we did not use the hands when we were talking to each other. And I let her see by putting her hand on my face how we talked with our mouths. She felt the vibrations of the spoken word. Instantly she spelled “I want to talk with my mouth“ That seemed impossible. But after experimenting for a time we found that by placing her hand in this position, the thumb resting on the throat. Right at the larynx. The first finger on the lips. The second on the nose, we found that she could feel the vibration of spoken insta
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