Imagine what it would be like to not be able to see or hear and try to learn and be a child. Author and speaker Helen Keller, lived with this struggle her entire life when a high fever left her deaf and blind at the age of nineteen months. Take a look at Helen Keller's life, education, and career. (American Foundation for the Bind) Helen Keller didn't start out with any problems. A healthy baby girl was born. Then, at nineteen months old, she had a very high fever that might have been scarlet fever, which can cause people to have very high fevers of up to 101 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. This disease disappeared but left her deaf and blind for the rest of her life. (Helen Keller) Helen Adams Keller was born to her father, Captain Arthur H. Keller, a former Confederate Army officer, and his wife, Kate Adams Keller, a cousin of Robert E. Lee. June twenty-seven in Tucumbia Alabama. As he grew up, he hung on to his mother's skirt to walk around. Helen could recognize people by feeling their faces and clothes. She was a very bright child but became very frustrated and threw tantrums. These outbursts were most likely due to his inability to communicate with other people. Helen was also a very naughty child. For example, he once locked his mother in the pantry. This worried her mother and father and they wanted to do something to help her. Her mother later learned about the education of a girl named Laura Bridgman (another deaf and blind child). So his parents sought advice from ENT, eye, nose and throat specialist Dr Julian Chisolm, who put them in touch with Alexander Graham Bell. . When Helen was six years old they took her to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell in Washington DC who told them... halfway through the paper... during a meeting while in Washington he had met President Kennedy. After that he lived peacefully at Arcan Ridge. He saw family, friends and spent a lot of time reading. His favorite books were the Bible and volumes of poetry and philosophy. (facts about historical figures)After her retirement from public speaking she was not forgotten. In 1964 he received the aforementioned Presidential Medal of Freedom. Also in 1965 she was one of 20 elected to the Women's Hall of Fame at the New York World's Fair. Keller and Eleanor Rosavelt received the most votes out of 100 people nominated. Helen is honored with the gall of fame for the leaders and legends of the field of blindness. (facts about historical figures) Helen died on June 1, 1968, just before her eightieth birthday. Her ashes were placed next to those of her teacher and friend Anne Sullivan Macy, who died in 1936 at the age of seventy..