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What are different teaching meathods of ms sullivan

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Ms. Sullivan understood Helen and taught her according to her abilities and needs. Comment on this statement in light of the innovative methods adopted by Ms. Sullivan.

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In The Story of My Life, Helen Kellernotes that Miss Sullivan teaches her by speaking to her as if she could hear. As Keller puts it:

From the beginning of my education Miss Sullivan made it a practice to speak to me as she would to any hearing child; the only difference was that she spelled the sentences into my hand instead of speaking them. If I did not know the words and idioms necessary to express my thoughts she supplied them, even suggesting conversation when I was unable to keep up my end of the dialogue.

Miss Sullivan did not condense or change what people said when she communicated it to Helen; instead she supplied it verbatim so that Helen would learn common idioms. She helped Helen by showing her how to enter into a conversation.

Because she was with Helen one-on-one, Miss Sullivan could teach her in an experiential, progressive way. They didn't sit in a classroom reading from a textbook all the time. Often they were out in nature, learning by doing. When in the classroom, Miss Sullivan would often give Helen objects to hold, such as a seashell. To learn about plants, they grew a lily in a window, and Helen could touch it as it developed and blossomed. Miss Sullivan kept tadpoles in a bowl, which Helen could hold and feel squirming in her hand. In this way, Helen learned with the senses she had to use. Helen states:

Thus I learned from life itself. At the beginning I was only a little mass of possibilities. It was my teacher who unfolded and developed them. When she came, everything about me breathed of love and joy and was full of meaning. She has never since let pass an opportunity to point out the beauty that is in everything, nor has she ceased trying in thought and action and example to make my life sweet and useful.

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Miss Sullivan to various methods for teaching Helen she was very patient even helen's mother won't have as patients as miss Sullivan she did not believe in teaching her students indoor instead she took Helen outside and taught her a nauty child like Helen should be taught kindly she never lost hope in teaching Helen when miss Sullivan saw Helen for the first time she gifted her a doll and spelt it in her hand similarly she even Tata other words like water mug et cetera she taught helen how to communicate with others through hand signs and communicated with others through hand signs  and she  taught her how to form sentences miss Sullivan taught her geography history and arithmetics in this way Helen was taught by miss Annie Sullivan .