HELEN KELLER SPEAKS OUT

Year - 1954. Helen Keller explains That her Greatest Disappointment in life is that she can not speak normally. TRANSCRIPT: “ In this room sits a remarkable woman. She’s Miss Helen Keller. She does not see the room, or the book she’s reading. She sees nothing . She doesn’t hear the rustling of the curtains behind her. She is deaf... Deaf and blind. But if you enter a room she will know it. Your lightest foot fall will tell her you are coming. It will even tell her who you are, if she knows you. As she knows her old friend Polly Thomson. Polly has been with Helen forty years. For half of these she has been Helen’s only companion. Helen’s eyes and ears on the world. She talks to Helen with a finger system in which each letter has a this. Reaching out beyond her dark and silent night, Helen depends most on touch. Two other senses remain. There is taste and smell. Scent... the scent of objects and places and people tells Helen much that we learn with eyes and ears. But her hand is her chief link w