![]() ![]() Contact your local cooperating library to register for BARD. This minibibliography brings together Helen Keller’s writings along with biographies and studies of her career.ĭigital braille and talking book titles can be downloaded from the NLS BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) service. She worked for the American Foundation for the Blind for more than 40 years and traveled around the world to promote the needs of blind people. Throughout her life Helen Keller wrote books, essays, and speeches while advocating for numerous causes, such as workers’ rights and women’s suffrage. While there she published The Story of My Life (BR14704, DB55883), the first volume of her autobiography, and began her career as a writer. Keller went on to attend Radcliffe College, where she became the first deaf-blind person to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf-blind from the age of nineteen months, being introduced to language by her teacher Anne Sullivan never fails to move audiences. Vaughns NLS Aspiring Leaders Internship Programĭetails of Helen Keller’s early life are well known thanks to William Gibson’s play The Miracle Worker (DB26428, BR13555) and the film made from it. ![]() Directory of Producers of Reading Materials.Braille and Large Print Calendars – 2023.Bibles and Other Sacred Writings in Special Media. ![]()
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