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Helen Keller From day one, Helen Keller was a healthy happy child. No disabilities. No handicaps. But after a burning fever, Helen was left in a dark and silent world. Though that didn’t stop her from being one of the most successful people with disabilities. Born June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, Helen Keller was the shining light in her family of five. She lived with her two older stepbrothers, her mother Kate Adam Keller and her father Captain Charles Keller. Fir the first year or so Helen Keller was a normal baby, she was learning to walk and talk, and get potty-trained. But after a terrible fever supposedly the scarlet fever sprang on her when she was almost two, she was left blind and deaf. This disease of February 1882 left the Keller family hopeless of having a normal life. Little did they know what Helen would turn out to be. To communicate with her family she would yell and scream, or make motions with herself. For example she would want ice cream, and to show that she wanted it she would make a shiver sign, and then pretend to lick ice cream. Sometimes she got very frustrated when she had to do it more than once. It must have been very hard for her siblings and mother to understand that she was ‘saying’. Her life was falling apart. But everything changed on March 3, 1887. Helen was seven. This is the day that Miss Anne Sullivan came to change Helen’s whole perspective on the world. A few weeks after