Helen Keller Captured on Video

I am so impressed. This is hero­ical and more than a won­der for Helen and Annie Sul­li­van who ded­i­cat­ed the whole life mak­ing this won­der. May you rest in the high­est heav­en. The human­i­ty is liv­ing in you both. Thanks for this les­son of per­se­ver­ance.

This is a won­der­ful clip, but I don’t under­stand how she would know what what she said meant? Isn’t she just repeat­ing sounds? How does that become knowl­edge?

“dumb” mean­ing unable to speak. She learned to use her voice long after she had mas­tered braille etc. and had a store­house of knowl­edge — this was a final step of her edu­ca­tion.

I first learned of Helen Keller when I was 7 yrs old and through­out my life she has remained a con­stant inspi­ra­tion. She is my hero. While I am too young to have known her in per­son I have always admired and respect­ed this woman I felt so con­nect­ed to. Although I can see and hear, Helen inspired me to learn sign lan­guage at the age of 8 through the use of books, and by age 9 I taught myself to read braille. I am now 42 and this is the first time I have ever heard her voice. Thank you for putting this online, it only adds to the inspi­ra­tion she con­tin­ues to be in my life. Because of Helen Keller I grew up believ­ing that any­thing is pos­si­ble if a per­son sim­ply invests their heart and soul. While Annie Sul­li­van is accred­it­ed as her teacher, it was Helen’s own heart and soul that made her many achieve­ments pos­si­ble. God Bless you Helen, you will nev­er be for­got­ten.

This is amaz­ing

Tech­ni­cal­ly, she was cap­tured on film, not video.

I love the video.She was smart all her life

yall should real­ly check the video out “teach­ing helen to speak” it is ami­az­ing and fun­ny thanks

Bril­liant women. Nev­er tru­ly appre­ci­at­ed for their exquis­ite inven­tive­ness. Par­tic­u­lar­ly Annie Sul­li­van. Absolute­ly for­mi­da­ble intel­lects.