Helen Keller’s deafness and blindness by a severe illness when she was a baby. Her parents what to do, and they it difficult to control their growing daughter. One day they about a brilliant young teacher called Anne Sullivan. She to work with Helen and, very firmly and patiently, her that every object a name. Eventually Helen a place at university. After this she the world helping people like herself. In 1962 the story of her life into a film The Miracle Worker.