From this point on, Helen acquired language rapidly she particularly enjoyed learning out in nature, where she and her teacher would take walks and she would ask questions about her surroundings. Helen learned to spell these words through imitation, without understanding what she was doing, but eventually had a breakthrough and realized that everything had a name, and that Miss Sullivan was teaching them to her. Miss Sullivan taught Helen the names of objects by giving them to her and then spelling out the letters of their name in her hand. Everything changed in March of 1887, when Helen's teacher, Anne Sullivan, came to live with the family in Alabama and turned Helen's world around. In the early years after her illness, it was difficult for her to communicate, even with her family she lived her life entirely in the dark, often angry and frustrated with the fact that no one could understand her. When she was a year old, she was stricken with an illness that left her without sight or hearing. Helen Keller was born on Jin the small town of Tuscumbia, Alabama.
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