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How did Dr.Alexander Graham Bell help Helen Keller to be educated.Describe her first meeting with him.

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How is Helen's first meeting with Alexander Graham Bell described in The Story of my Life? How did Bell help Helen to be educated? 

How is Helen's first meeting with Alexander Graham Bell described in The Story of my Life? How did Bell help Helen to be educated?

 

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Helen Keller loved Alexander Graham Bell from the moment she met him.  He recommended the Perkins Institute, who found Anne Sullivan to teach Helen Keller.

Helen Keller’s biography The Story of My Life is dedicated to Alexander Graham Bell.  This demonstrates his importance in her life.  Her dedication also references the telephone, and its impact on the hearing population.

Helen Keller’s parents took her to Dr. Bell when she was six years old.  They were seeking advice on schools and teachers of the blind and deaf, because Helen had lost both senses in an illness when she was a toddler.  She loved him immediately, feeling “tenderness and sympathy” from him.