Helen Keller's Educational History

  • Beginning of Education

    Beginning of Education
    Anne Sullivan goes to Keller’s home in Alabama and began teaching her words through finger spelling.
  • Horace Mann School for the Deaf

    Horace Mann School for the Deaf
    Here Keller took speech classes. It took her 25 years to learn how to speak so that people could understand her.
  • Wright Humason School for the Deaf

    Wright Humason School for the Deaf
    A school in New York City where she worked on communication skills and studied regular subjects.
  • Cambridge School for Young Ladies

    Cambridge School for Young Ladies
  • Attended Radcliffe College

    Attended Radcliffe College
    A man named Henry Rodgers that Keller met was so impressed with her that he paid her tuition for her to attend Radcliffe. Sullivan sat by her side at classes to interpret lectures and texts.
  • Graduated from Radcliffe College

    Graduated from Radcliffe College
    Keller was the first blind and deaf person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.