Women Who Inspire: Helen Keller Category_Famous Firsts Series • Information relevant to U

• Information relevant to U

Vocabulary Boosters 3 aims to help adult learners develop their vocabulary through reading passages written at an appropriate level

This series features four people who have made a difference through acts of courage

so Val starts saving her money and finds a volunteer job at a daycare centre

believing that violence does not bring peace

Women Who Inspire: Helen Keller Category_Famous Firsts Series • Information relevant to UHelen Keller learned to speak, read, and write in spite of becoming blind and deaf at the age of two due to an illness. As a child, Helen was frustrated and unmanageable but her mother never gave up on her. Helen's life changed when a teacher, Annie Sullivan, came into her life. Annie won Helen's trust and was able to teach Helen to speak, read, and write. Helen had Annie at her side when she became the first deaf blind person to get a college degree.