please help i need to get this done i realy need like a full description of why and how she is that way?please pretty please with cherry's on top someone help me and FAST
2007-11-23 11:37:03 · 21 answers · asked by smiley 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Check it out on Wikipedia. She had some childhood disease which they didn't have vaccinations for at that time.
2007-11-23 11:40:42 · answer #1 · answered by old cat lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Helen Keller had the measles when she was 2. It left her blind and deaf. One of the most devastating effects of red measles is the disablilities which follow. That is why the measles vaccination is so important to children. By the way measles is on of the only diseases that can effect a baby BEFORE it is born. If a pregnant woman is around a person that has the measles, her unborn child can catch the disease. It can cause blindness, deafness and severe retardation.
2007-11-23 11:44:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain," which could have possibly been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind. At that time her only communication partner was Martha Washington, the six-year-old daughter of the family cook, who was able to create a sign language with her; by age seven, she had over 60 home signs to communicate with her family.
2007-11-23 11:46:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that she contracted a childhood desease when she was a baby. Most children fully recover, but it left her deaf and blind.
She was an extraordinary woman to have overcome her handicaps to the degree that she did. Although, much of the credit has to go to her teacher and her patience. She also had the advantage of once having sight and hearing, even though she was only a baby then. No one born with her disabilities has ever achieved her level of functionality ... ever. Researchers say that is because she had the memory of sight and sound.
2007-11-23 11:48:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The illness that struck the infant Helen Keller, and left her deaf and blind before she learned to speak, was diagnosed as brain fever at the time; perhaps it was scarlet fever.
2007-11-23 11:41:26 · answer #5 · answered by Frosty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She was not born blind and deaf; it was not until nineteen months of age that she came down with an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain,
2007-11-23 11:40:09 · answer #6 · answered by Crazy cat lady >^ ^< 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Helen Keller had a sickness when she was 19 months old. She lost her sight and hearing.
2007-11-23 11:39:55 · answer #7 · answered by i lost the magic. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was most likely Scarlet Fever or Meningitis, no one is completely sure. She was 19 months old. You are going to need to do your own research to find a complete description.
2007-11-23 11:41:44 · answer #8 · answered by paganmom 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only FULL description I can give you is that she got a virus/infection when she was really young.
She had fever and stuff like that and it got worse.
2007-11-23 11:40:28 · answer #9 · answered by ohhcharm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think she had measles when she was a baby.
p.s. cherry's means something belongs to the cherry-apostrophe s shows possession.
The word you want to use is cherries-the plural of cherry--change the y to i and add es.
2007-11-23 11:50:16 · answer #10 · answered by QRX 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋