Write a note on Helen education
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One such sceptic was Dr Martin W Barr, director of the School for the Feeble Minded in Elwyn, Pennsylvania, who in 1896 tried to verify what he had read in the press about the then sixteen year old Helen Keller. Replies he received from Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind, Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, and the Cambridge School for Young Ladies are now available to read in the Wellcome Library as MS.8927.
All of the institutions he wrote to had previously been involved in teaching Helen Keller. The Perkins Institute in particular had played a key role. In 1886, the Keller family had contacted the director of the Institute, Michael Anagnos, on the advice of Alexander Graham Bell. At this point, six year old Helen had created more than sixty signs which enabled her to communicate with her family in a very limited way. However, she was unable to communicate with anyone outside her family apart from Martha Washington, the young daughter of the family cook.
“In May 1888, Keller started attending the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In 1894, Keller and Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and to learn from Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts, and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College, Harvard University[21] where she lived in Briggs Hall, South House. Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife Abbie, paid for her education. In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe, becoming the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. “ Wikipedia