Did Anne Sullivan meet Helen Keller in an assylum where Anne worked & yrs passed before Helen responded true ?

Question

I heard that Helen was in an assylun and Anne worked there & wanted to help Helen. No other person would try to help her. Anne would say I' m going down to Helens room and the workers thought and said things such as whats the use. Anne would make a point everyday to visit with Helen though Helen would never respond back. Anne would leave a piece of candy or cookie at Helen' s door and after years Anne one day saw a piece of cookie gone Then Anne advised the doctors to begin treatment on Helen. Before this The doctors never treated Helen.

Answer 1

No, Anne Sullivan didn't meet Helen Keller in an asylum. Helen was kept at home by her family, it was recommended that Helen Keller be placed in asylum. But Anne Sullivan talked the family out of that idea, and she suggested that Anne and her resided on house that was located on the estate that Helen Keller's family own. This way Anne could work with Helen on a one to one bases without Helen's family interfering.
Anne Sullivan did live most of her early years in a poor house. That's a place where people who couldn't pay off their debts were sent to work off their debts. Condition in those places were terrible and these places were mention from time to time in books by Charles Dickens. Poor houses could be found in the United States and England.
A poorhouse is a publicly maintained facility for the support and housing of dependent or needy persons, typically run by a local government entity such as a county or municipality.

In Victorian times (for Britain itself, see Poor Law, but also elsewhere), poverty was seen as a dishononouring, guilty state (lack of the highly praised virtue of industry being the presumed reason), justifying a rather uncharitable treatment, known from the Dickensian portrayal of a dehumanized regime resembling a Reformatory (children could also be kept there, with their family or alone), or rather penal labour, as the poor could be put to hard, manual labour and were subject to physical punishment.

The resident poor's lot was often not much better than in a reformatory, largely depending on the authorities and the staff, elsewhere in the world either, e.g. in Saratoga County (New York) the 137 "inmates" of all sexes and ages could be beaten.

The term is commonly applied to such a facility that houses the destitute elderly; institutions of this nature were widespread in the United States prior to the adoption of the Social Security program in the 1930s. Facilities housing indigents who are not elderly are typically referred to as homeless shelters, or simply "shelters," in current usage.

Often the poorhouse was situated on the grounds of a poor farm on which able-bodied residents were required to work; such farms were common in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries; it could even be part of the same economic complex as a prison farm and other penal and/or 'charitable' public institutions.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_houses
Here is a web site about Helen Keller's life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller and a web site for the one about Anne Sullivan's life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Sullivan
A movie was made about Helen Keller's life called The Miracle Worker. You can find it on VHS, I don't know if you can find a re-mastered copy on DVD but you can try. The first version of The Miracle Worker started Patty Duke in the role of Helen Keller and Patty won best actress for her role in that movie. There have been other remakes of the movie too.

Answer 2

NO!!
Annie Sullivan was a nurse hired to help Helen. Helen was educated in the home for the first part of her education. Annie was a home tutor and nurse. I think Helen was one of her first jobs and it really took it out of her!
Helen Keller was a bit of a brat before Annie came along.. Her parents had not known what to do, and so allowed her to run free, never scolding her.
Annie Sullivan had a really hard time with her. She would steal, pinch and hit people. She had no trust for anyone. Annie won her over, and eventually taught her to talk (hardly any blind and deaf people could talk because they couldn't see the way a persons mouth moved or hear the sound of their voice) by placing Helen's hand at her throat while annie spoke.
They worked together for the rest of Annie's life. Helen was devastated when Annie died.

Answer 3

Not even close--Helen was only a little girl when Anne was sent to Alabama and hired by Helen's parents to try to teach her. Helen was so wild that her parents couldn't do anything with her, and they didn't try to. She was allowed to walk around the dining room table, putting her hands in everyone elses's plates, she threw screaming tantrums constantly, etc. Whenever Anne tried to punish her, her family fought it. Finally Anne got tired of all the fighting and took Helen to live in a guest house on the family property. She worked with her constantly, and made sure she obeyed--if she threw her food, she didn't get any more for that meal, etc. She was trying to teach her to identify objects through a type of sign language in which she spelled words into Helen's hand. Helen thought it was a type of game, and was very good at repeating the symbols, but didn't connect them with anything until one day Anne took her to the water pump and spelled out "water" into Helen's hand. "Wawa" was Helen's word for water as a baby, just before she went blind and deaf, and the last word she used. She seemed to light up, said "wawa," and spelled the word for water over and over into Anne's hand. Then she went racing from place to place, demanding that Anne spell the words for everything for her. It was the moment she realized that there was a real world out there beyond her darkness.

Answer 4

No, you're wrong