Helen Keller

Helen Keller
Helen Keller wants (خواستن) to learn (یاد گرفتن) English. She wants to speak (صحبت کردن) English. She wants to read (خواندن) English. But she cannot see. She is blind. (نابینا) She cannot hear. She is deaf. (ناشنوا) She cannot speak. 

     How do you teach someone words who cannot hear? How do you teach someone to read who cannot see? When Helen is six (6) a teacher comes to help her.  The teacher’s name is Annie. She is only twenty (20) years old. Annie has much patience (صبر). Annie works very hard. She wants to give Helen words. Words are how Helen will “see” and “hear”.


     Annie gives (دادن) Helen a doll (عروسک). Then she spells (هجی کردن) “doll” in her hand. She makes letters with her fingers.  Annie gives Helen a flower and spells “flower”.  She puts many, many, many things in Helen’s hand and spells the word for each thing! Helen learns every word you and I know!

 

    Helen goes to school. Annie helps her in school. Annie reads books to Helen. Annie spells every (هر) letter and every word in the book. Helen wants to speak!  How?  She touches (لمس کردن) Annie’s throat (گلو), mouth (دهان), and nose (بینی), she “feels” (حس کردن) the words and learns to speak. When Helen is 19 she goes to a university! After university Helen works all her life to help blind and deaf people.  She said, “Self-pity (دلسوزی بحال خود) is our worst enemy (دشمن).”