Question

what difficulties Helen faced at Cambridge

Answer 1

Since Helen Keller was blind and deaf, a regular formal education was a challenge.  She had been taught from a young age by Anne Sullivan, one on one and usually in the garden.  This education included sign language and Braille.  She even learned how to speak, but she could not hear. 

Helen’s problems with preparing for and going to college were that most books were not available in Braille, and she had trouble during lectures because Anne Sullivan had to spell the lecture into her hand.

Miss Sullivan could not spell out in my hand all that the books required, and it was very difficult to have textbooks embossed in time to be of use to me, although my friends in London and Philadelphia were willing to hasten the work. For a while, indeed, I had to copy my Latin in braille, so that I could recite with other girls