Ken je het verhaal van Helen Keller? Een amerikaanse die doof-blind was en de eerste die een Bachelor of Arts - degree verwierf, ze was ook bekend als Auteur en politiek Activiste.
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Keller's breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of "water". Writing in her autobiography, The Story of My Life, Keller recalled the moment. "I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten — a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that w-a-t-e-r meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, set it free!" [13] Keller then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.
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