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helpful to them. Our government has provided certain facilities for such

people.

g Ramps are made at railway stations, metro stations and shopping malls
for people who use wheelchairs.

g Many schools and colleges have been set-up across the country for such

children. Special computers with speakers for visually challenged
students have been set up.

g News for the people who cannot hear is telecast by the National
Channel in sign language which they can understand.

Learning with a Difference

Helen Keller was a popular teacher and a
famous author. She became deaf and blind
when she was only 19 months old.

When Helen Keller was six-years old, her
parents learned about the Perkins

Institution for the Blind in Boston. They
asked for a teacher to come and help

Helen Keller Helen. The school sent a twenty years old
girl, Anne Sullivan who was barely-sighted
herself. In one month, she taught Helen
Helen Keller was awarded the what a word is and that everything has a
Presidential Medal of Freedom, name. Helen was a brilliant student. Anne
the highest civilian award in the taught her patiently to tap letters of the
USA. alphabet into her palm. Anne also taught

Helen to touch the speaker’s lips and
understand what is being said.

At twenty, Helen entered Radcliffe College.

Anne tapped the lectures into her hand.
Helen learned Braille and used a special
typewriter.

In 1904, Helen graduated with honours.
She travelled around the globe lecturing
Helen with Her Teacher and raising funds for the differently-abled
Anne Sullivan
people.

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