Do you know who was the first to bring Akita to the United States? Of course, it was Helen Keller. Although she was handicapped, she had set good example to other handicapped people.

She was born in the year of 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She really made the Adam's family happy. Everything was well until she was 19 months old. When 19 months old, something made her mother worried. she could not hear her mother calling her. Her mother called the docter as quickly as she could. After that, the docter said that she was deaf.

The next day, when her mother waved at her, she could not see it. Again, her mother called the docter. This time, she was deaf and blind! She was handicapped!

No method could be found to educate her until the age of seven, when she began her special education in reading and writing with Anne Mansfield Sullivan(Macy) of the Perkins Institude for the Blind. The first word she learn was "DOLL". She learn quickly to read by the BRAILLE systemand to write by the means of specially contructed type-writer. Keller learnt to speak with only one month of study in 1890.

Ten years later, she was able to enter Radcliffe College, from which she gratuated with honors in 1904. Keller then served on the Massachusetts Commision for the Blind.

Throughout her life, she worked and raised funds for the American Foundation for the Blind, and she travelled and lectured many countries, including England, France, Italy, Egypt, South Africa, Australia and Japan. Keller was also a pacifist and was active in socialist causes. After World War 2 (1939-1945), she visited wounded veterans in American hospitals and lectured in Europe on behalf of the physically handicapped. She also wrote a few stories about herself.

I really admire helen Keller because she was an American author and lecturer, who had overcome considerable physical handicaps, served as an inspiration for other afflicted people.

Wrote by:Nur Aqidah