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      • In The Story of My Life, Helen Keller 's autobiographical account of her childhood, Helen admits that her life would have been torment without Miss Sullivan's intervention. Helen has such a special bond with Annie Sullivan that she says in chapter seven, "my teacher is so near to me that I scarcely think of myself apart from her."
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  2. Helen Keller’s teacher, Miss Anne Sullivan, was the most profound influence on Helens life and her dearest companion. Miss Sullivan came to Tuscumbia, Alabama in the spring of Helen’s sixth year, and Helen writes of her arrival in reverent terms and Biblical allegories.

  3. Due to Miss Sullivan's determination, Helen was able to learn how to communicate. The devoted teacher patiently spelled letters into her young pupil's palm. It was in this way...

  4. Apr 14, 2016 · For the first two or three years of her education, Sullivans instruction consisted primarily of creating a dialogue with Helen by communicating with her pupil through their hands. She did this with Helen over and over again, continuing even when Helen struggled to keep up with her teacher.

  5. Earlier in the day we had had a tussle over the words “m-u-g” and “w-a-t-e-r.” Miss Sullivan had tried to impress it upon me that “m-u-g” is mug and that “w-a-t-e-r” is water, but I persisted in confounding the two. In despair she had dropped the subject for the time, only to renew it at the first opportunity.

  6. Aug 10, 2016 · Anne Sullivan contracted an eye disease at the age of five, which greatly damaged her sight. She understood that blind/deaf students were teachable.... that they were intelligent. Her own education and subsequent desire to teach led to her job with the Kellers.

  7. Aug 6, 2011 · Miss Sullivan explained everything in the language she and Helen used -- a language of touch -- of fingers and hands. Helen also learned how to ride a horse, to swim, to row a boat and, even to...

  8. Helen spent four years at Radcliffe with Annie Sullivan at her side, summarizing lectures, translating classroom discussions, reading entire books into her hand.

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