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I know that she was deaf and blind but did she ever learn to speak?

2007-03-13 13:31:46 · 19 answers · asked by mike s 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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Yes she did and was able to speak in lecture halls. This is well documented. She may have sounded off but no more than say Marlee Matlin - award winning actress who happens to be deaf.

2007-03-13 13:41:05 · answer #1 · answered by Lee 4 · 1 0

Could Helen Keller Speak

2016-12-12 09:02:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Could Helen Keller Talk

2016-10-03 07:55:35 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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Could Helen Keller Talk?
I know that she was deaf and blind but did she ever learn to speak?

2015-08-11 20:46:07 · answer #4 · answered by Lala 1 · 0 0

Wow, what has happened to our education system. Helen Keller was a little girl who was deaf and blind but learned to communicate anyways with the help of her tutor Anne Sullivan.

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Didn't they teach you that in elementary school. Helen Keller was blind and deaf. She learned to write and graduate college. she communicated by spelling words in peoples hands.

2016-04-02 07:30:18 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Yes she could. In fact she later in life, after she mastered sign and tactile communication, asked her teacher to be taught oral communication, and she, being Helen unable to hear, used her hands to "place" tongue, mouth and teeth of Helen in the "right" position for every sound, and made Helen touch her neck when she spoke to "feel" when and how for long she had to "speak".
At first Helen was able to "echo" Anne own utterance, then she learned to talk by herself. Being deaf she had to exert more control on her vocal emissions: sometimes, especially when worried about it, albeit she had the distinct feeling of having screamed, she had not uttered more than a faint whisper, or otherwise.

2007-03-15 23:29:35 · answer #7 · answered by Tofu 3 · 2 0

When she was older her longtime teacher and partner anne sullivan brought her to someone who taught her to talk by imitating the vibrations she would feel while placing her hand on someonesw neck while they were talking. She was capable of knowing what talking was because she was not born deaf and actually said wawa for water when she was still an infant.

2007-03-13 13:35:53 · answer #8 · answered by just curious 4 · 0 0

She was able to speak well enough to perform graduation speeches at colleges. There were some cases where she would go off on a tangent about Socialism during her speeches and be rushed offstage. She had a terrible speech impediment, but she was deaf, and had almost never heard spoken language, give her a break.

2007-03-13 13:45:39 · answer #9 · answered by Ben C 2 · 1 1

after annie helped her, she could talk but annie didn't come until helen was around 12 or 13 years old, maybe a little younger

2007-03-13 13:36:11 · answer #10 · answered by babygirl 4 · 0 2

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