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See also:KELLER, See also:HELEN See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
ADAMS (188o- ) , See also:American See also:blind See also:deaf-See also:mute, was See also:born at Tuscumbia, See also:Alabama, in 1880. When barely two years old she was deprived of sight, See also:smell and See also:hearing, by an attack of See also:scarlet See also:fever. At the See also:request of her parents, who were acquainted with the success attained in the See also:case of Laura See also:Bridgman (q.v.), one of the graduates of the See also:Perkins Institution at See also:Boston, See also:Miss See also:Anne M. See also:Sullivan, who was See also:familiar with the teachings of Dr S. G. See also:Howe (q.v.), was sent to instruct her at See also:home. Unfortunately an exact See also:record of the steps in her See also:education was not kept; but from 1888 onwards, at the Perkins Institution, Boston, and under Miss Sarah See also:Fuller at the See also:Horace See also:Mann school in New See also:York, and at the See also:Wright Humason school, she not only learnt to read, write, and talk, but became proficient, to an exceptional degree, in the See also:ordinary educational curriculum. In 1900 she entered See also:Radcliffe See also:College, and successfully passed the See also:examinations in See also:mathematics, &c. for her degree of A. B. in 1904. Miss Sullivan, whose ability as a teacher must be considered almost as marvellous as the See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent of her See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil, was throughout her devoted See also:companion. The case of Helen Keller is the most extraordinary ever known in the education of blind deaf-mutes (see DEAF AND DUMB ad fin.), her acquirements including several See also:languages and her See also:general culture being exceptionally wide. She wrote The See also:Story sf My See also:Life (1902), and volumes on Optimism (1903), and The See also:World I Live in (1908), which both in See also:literary See also:style and in outlook on life are a striking See also:revelation of the results of See also:modern methods of educating those who have been so handicapped by natural disabilities.
End of Article: KELLER, HELEN ADAMS (188o- )
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