How Helen Keller learned to communicate

How Helen Keller learned to communicate: As an infant, Helen Keller contracted an illness that left her both deaf and blind — and incapable of developing the language skills to communicate with the people around her. That was until one Anne Sullivan found through a long process of experimentation that she could teach Keller how to speak by allowing her to feel the vibrations on Sullivan’s throat and the movements of her mouth using her fingers. Keller later went on to be the first deafblind person to earn a university degree, in addition to publishing several written works and becoming an advocate for the deafblind community (watch, runtime 2:54).