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How did Helen Keller learn to type?

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Helen Keller was no ordinary girl. She was blind and deaf and as a result she was not able to speak clearly in her whole life. It was Anne Sullivan who not only taught her to read and write but also shaped her character and life. read more

Helen Keller came to Perkins when many competing systems for reading and writing for people with blindness were being used, invented and reinvented. These systems included raised-dot alphabets like English Braille, American Braille and New York Point; embossed Roman alphabets, namely Samuel Gridley Howe's Boston Line Type; and a system that utilized abstracted Roman letter forms called Moon Type. read more

She was taught to read and write Braille. It is an alphabet of raised dots arranged in different patterns for different letters. read more

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