The name Helen Keller conjures up, for many people, a deaf-blind-mute girl learning to communicate via sign language. It is a scene straight out of “The Miracle Worker,” the biographical play ...

Helen Keller refused to have anything to do with ... The first sentence she learned to speak was: “I am not dumb now.” It is one of those simple statements to which circumstances can give ...

This is the American Foundation for the Blind, where the Keller archive is kept. HELEN SELSDON: Being deaf and blind gave her a sort of an unusual platform from which to speak. She used it to ...