At the age of two, Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing because of this:
A gas lamp explosion
Typhoid fever
Scarlet fever
Influenza
Meningitis
Scarlet fever.
At the age of two, Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing after contracting scarlet fever. Keller?s teacher, Annie Mansfield Sullivan broke through Keller?s childhood isolation to teach her Braille and sign language, and later accompanied her to every class at Radcliffe College, spelling lectures and books into her hand. Keller went on to graduated cum laude from Radcliffe at age 24 on September 1, 1904. After graduation, she embarked on a career of writing on behalf of woman suffrage, socialism and the rights of the handicapped. Helen Keller died on June 1, 1968.
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