![]() ![]() She also learned how to speak and to understand other people's speech using the Tadoma method. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan, who taught her language, including reading and writing Sullivan's first lessons involved spelling words on Keller's hand to show her the names of objects around her. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and hearing after a bout of illness at the age of nineteen months. Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.
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