“Helen Keller was an author, lecturer, and crusader for the handicapped.  Widely honored throughout the world and invited to the White House by every U.S. president from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson, Keller altered the world’s perception of the capacities of the handicapped. More than any act in her long life, her courage, intelligence, and dedication combined to make her a symbol of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity.  She went on to acquire an excellent education and to become an important influence on the treatment of the blind and deaf who as a baby younger than 2 years old was diagnosed deaf and blind!”.

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