Helen Keller was born in 1880 with sight and hearing, but an illness at eighteen months left her deaf and blind. Keller overcame these disabilities to became an international spokesperson championing the causes of education, research and opportunity for t
Helen Keller worked for The American Foundation for the Blind from 1924 until her death in 1968.
The Helen Keller Foundation promotes sight, speech and hearing research, carrying on the life's work of their namesake.
My pick-of-day for elementary students comes from Britain's Royal National Institute for the Blind.
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
TIME features Helen Keller as of the one hundred most influential people of the twentieth century.
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