It took three years, but by the time that she was eleven, Helen Keller knew the alphabet, both by palm-manual and Braille raised type, and could read and write. By now, Miss Sullivan was convinced ...

wrote Helen Keller. She would help change ... created for soldiers by a French Army captain. Braille was just 15 when he completed his alphabet of raised dots, produced using a slate and stylus.

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 ...