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, born in 1880 was just like any other normal child. She had two loving parents that cared for her deeply. She was a bright glowing young baby, but at the age of eighteen months old she suffered an illness. The illness that Helen got was Scarlet Fever.(Howell 1 ....

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.... or bathed her. She was declared legally as an idiot. She soon started going to a special school called the Boston Institute for the Blind that her parents had heard of that helps children with disabilities. She did not really understand that words stood for things in the world. She did not know what words meant. Although she did not give up easily.(Howell 1) Up until the age of seven, when her teacher Anne Sullivan put her hand under water did she know that things in the world had meanings. Anne being half blind herself had the ways of knowing how to teach Helen. In about two hours she had mastered over sixty words. Her and Anne develo ....