Helen Keller and the Gift of Language
Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. The first daughter of a loving family, she was a healthy, growing child. Speaking at 6 months, walking at a year old and, like any other child, a bundle of energy that kept her parents busy and on edge. Then, when she was nineteen months old, the unthinkable happened. Historians and doctors have sought to piece together what the sickness that visited poor Helen during that season was; at the time they called it “acute congestion of the stomach and brain”; whereas more recently many have speculated that it may have been some kind of Meningitis; but irregardless it manifested in a terrible fever that clung to the child so mercilessly that the family doctor did not think she would live. She quotes in her first book “ The Story of My Life ” that “ I still have confused recollections of that illness. I especially remember the tenderness with which my mother tried to soothe me in my waking hours o...
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