Question

what is the effect that the children at the Perkins Institute had on helen in The story of my life by helen Keller?

Answer 1

It may seem odd to answer a question about how Helen Keller’s family became acquainted with the Perkins Institute by introducing Alexander Graham Bell, a man we all know best as the inventor of the telephone. Bell had a deep personal history with the deaf community; his mother had been almost completely deaf, which led his grandfather and father to undertake extensive research on deafness and the voice. Bell apprenticed under his father and later moved to Boston, using a set of symbols called Visible Speech invented by his father to teach deaf children. He also married one of his former pupils whose hearing had been destroyed by illness when she was a child.