Helen Keller, while inspirational, offers very little guidance for a DeafBlind woman in the 21st Century.

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Even Helen Keller, who did learn to sign her name, extensively used secretaries to keep up.

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Studies by Helen Keller International last year found 65% of under-3s in central Java were anemic - a 25% rise from 1997.

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In 1990 a charitable organisation called Helen Keller International started to encourage market gardens in Bangladesh, providing women (mostly) with seeds and advice.

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In 1968, author-lecturer Helen Keller, who earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf most of her life, died in Westport, Connecticut.

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The Lions support for the program I founded, answering the call of Helen Keller to be the knights of the blind has enabled this progress.

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Many have shaken their heads at the sheer vulgarity of it all, among them Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Henry James, his brother William, and Sigmund Freud.

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The very people that Tesla would have wiped out include the autistic Temple Grandin, the paralyzed Stephen Hawking, the blind and deaf Helen Keller, and, of course, the mentally ill Nikola Tesla.

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When unable to find solutions in their local communities, teachers and families tap into national networks like the Office of Special Education Programs, the Helen Keller National Center, Perkins, and the National Federation of the Blind.

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