He suggested that I work with the institute’s newest graduate, Anne Sullivan. There, my family met with the school’s director, Michael Anaganos. Bell met with my parents and me, and suggested that we travel to the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts. After examining me, Chisolm recommended that I see Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, who was working with deaf children at the time. Looking for answers and inspiration, in 1886 my mother came across a travelogue by Charles Dickson, called “American Notes.” She read of the successful education of another deaf and blind child, Laura Bridgman, and soon dispatched my father and me to Baltimore, Maryland, to see specialist Dr. I had lost both my sight and hearing when I was 19 months old. Within a few days after the fever had broken, my mother started to notice that I didn’t show any reactions to the dinner bell when it was rung, or if a hand was waving in front of my face. Though some experts believe it might have been connected to the scarlet fever. The true nature of the illness remains a mystery even to this day. The doctor called the illness “brain fever” - it produced a high body temperature. I even started walking when I was just a year old. I was born with my sight and hearing, and started speaking when I was just 6 months old. My family is not very wealthy, but we earn enough income from our cotton plantation. I have two older stepbrothers from my father’s first marriage, and one younger sister. I was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. The speech below is the speech I did for Helen Keller. Then you say your speech about the person that you’re acting as. If you’re not familiar with a wax museum, it’s where you dress up as a historical person, and you stand there frozen until someone presses your button. Recently I dressed up as Helen Keller for a wax museum homeschool group activity.

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