Workers at the birthplace of Helen Keller had to cut down a more than 200-year-old oak tree that the famed activist and writer climbed as a girl.

Mark Twain once said the two most interesting characters of the 19th century were Napoleon and Helen Keller, but a series of ...

Helen Keller Services (HKS) has a proud history of providing services to help blind and deaf-blind individuals acquire the skillsets needed to lead productive lives.

In 1893, Keller even accompanied Bell to the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where they stayed for three weeks. Bell ...

Director Carolyn Self and Mary John Alexander, who plays Helen Keller in 'The Miracle Worker,' visited with Greg Screws and Lauren Layton to talk about the play.

Every year on June 27, we celebrate Helen Keller Day, honoring the remarkable life of Helen Adams Keller. She was an extraordinary American author, political activist, and speaker who faced the ...

Helen Adams Keller was an intelligent child who began speaking words like “wa-wa” (water) and taking her first steps as an infant.

Camp Helen Keller on L.I. caters to children with visual impairments BROOKVILLE, N.Y. -- A special summer camp is underway on Long Island for children who are blind or visually impaired, but that ...

BOSTON – Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod. The photograph, shot in July 1888 ...

Helen Adams Keller was born a normal child on June 27, 1880, at Tuscumbia, Ala. Her father, a descendent of a distinguished colonial family, was a newspaper editor, a landowner and a man of ...

By December, Helen had a broader vocabulary and an understanding of her place in the greater world around her. She was ready to celebrate her 'first' Christmas.