About Helen Keller

Hi, I am Helen Keller.  I am blind and deaf, but I was not always blind and deaf.  

I got sick, and then I was blind and deaf from the sickness.

When I was a kid just like you, I had big temper tantrums.  I had to have a teacher to help me speak.  I could not speak still.  

But one day at the water pump, I suddenly could understand the word water that my teacher spelled with her fingers!  Then I could learn to speak with other people and write things too.  I think that is all.

I am famous because I could write and talk and do so many things even though I was blind and deaf.