A REMARKABLE ACHIEVMENT.
Miss Helen Keller, who won such a remarkable victory over the disability of being blind, deal' and dumb, that she was able to study and take a degree of Bachelor of Aits, has made a still more remarkable achievement. She .has taught herself to speak. The manner in which she learned to speak, although deprived of the power of sight 1 and-hearing, is thus described by her teacher: "Day after day for years Helen has put her hand on my face, her fingers in my mouth, and felt my tongue, and imitated the positions, and repeated them over and over, until she has approximately natural normal speech. She is understood by almost everybody after they get: accustomed to her voice. It is monotonous, it must be monotonous, because it has been learned in this mechanical way. But the last, two years we think it has improved a good deal." Miss Keller recently gave an eloquent address at a New Church Convention in Chicago. i
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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 18 August 1919, Page 4
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167A REMARKABLE ACHIEVMENT. Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 18 August 1919, Page 4
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