The relationship between Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller went beyond pupil and teacher. It was based in Sullivan's ability to open up the world for Keller. Deaf, blind, and mute due to a childhood ...

Before Helen Keller became a symbol of hope and possibility, she was a frustrated child unable to communicate — until her teacher, Anne Sullivan, unlocked her world. Their story of struggle, ...

As a child, Helen Keller tried to teach sign language to her dog Belle by finger-spelling into the dog’s paw, much the way she had learned to spell into the hand of her teacher Anne Sullivan. “But she ...