![]() In the months after Helen’s illness, she clung tightly to her mother, and the two of them developed a few crude signs by which Helen could communicate her wants and needs. ![]() Helen’s fever eventually broke, but the illness left her blind, dumb, and deaf. When she was nearly two years old, however, she was struck with a sickness which gave her a high fever and which her parents and her doctor all feared she would not survive. The beginning of Helen’s life was ordinary but joyful-she lived with her parents in a small house on a large familial estate, and was a happy and intrepid child. Helen’s paternal lineage can be traced back to Switzerland, where one of her ancestors, ironically, was the first teacher of deaf children in Zurich. ![]() Helen Keller was born on June 27th, 1880 in Tuscumbia, a small town in Northern Alabama. ![]()
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