At the time when Helen was a small girl, people

A lot of children with disabilities like Helen around the world attended special schools.

When Helen was a small girl, her parents were sure that she would learn to communicate.

Alexander Graham Bell, the man who invented a telephone, was Helen parents' friend.

Anne Sullivan started working with Helen when Helen was 7.

Helen could touch, smell, and taste. She used these senses to learn.

Anne would spell words to Helen.

Anne would tap words into Helen's palm.

It didn't take long for Helen to start understanding the words.

The first word that Helen understood was "Water". She was at the water pump at the time.

During 1888–90 she spent winters at the Perkins Institution learning Braille.

She also learnt to lipread by placing her fingers on the lips and throat of the speaker while the words were simultaneously spelled out for her.

Having developed skills never approached by any similarly disabled person, Keller began to write about blindness.

She wrote a book about her life.

When she learnt how to communicate and graduated school, she began lecturing (with the aid of an interpreter), primarily on behalf of the American Foundation for the Blind.

She co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union.