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      • Her parents eventually sought the advice of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone and an authority on the deaf. He suggested the Kellers contact the Perkins Institution, which in turn recommended Anne Sullivan as a teacher.
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  1. Nov 24, 2009 · Anne Sullivan begins teaching six-year-old Helen Keller, who lost her sight and hearing as a baby. The two women would work together until Sullivan's death in 1936.

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  3. Anne Sullivan was a teacher who was dedicated to education and adopted an innovative teaching style. She lost much of her vision when she was only five years old but with the operations she underwent later, her vision improved slightly.

  4. Apr 2, 2014 · Who Was Anne Sullivan? Anne Sullivan was a gifted teacher best known for her work with Helen Keller, a blind and deaf child she taught to communicate.

  5. Anne Sullivan, American teacher of Helen Keller, widely recognized for her achievement in educating to a high level a person without sight, hearing, or normal speech. The two began working together in 1887, and Sullivan remained with Keller until her own death in 1936.

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  6. Aug 25, 2017 · Anne Sullivan: the “miracle worker" who taught Helen Keller. Sullivan's own experience of visual impairment encouraged her to help others with the same condition, leading her to become a teacher...

  7. Apr 14, 2016 · In 1887, Sullivan, at age 20, famously accepted a position to teach 7-year-old Keller, who at 19 months had been struck blind and deaf after contracting an illness (possibly scarlet fever or meningitis).

  8. Mar 2, 2020 · In 1887, a 20-year-old Sullivan, a recent graduate of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, arrived at Keller's Alabama home to become the young girl's teacher.

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