d that everything else in the world must have a name. She rushed around touching anything she could find and asking Anne what it was called. Anne kept teaching Helen this way for the next few years. She talked to her about all the things that were happening around them. She spelt everything into her hand using complete sentences instead of single words. That way Helen got a lot of information in the same way that a hearing child does. By doing this, Anne was giving her student the words and the ideas she would need when she was ready to talk. Anne was careful to teach Helen about the subjects she was interested in. The two of them would wander through the fields discussing whatever ideas came into Helen's mind. This way Anne managed to keep Helen interested in a lot of different subjects. It also meant that they could have some fun hobbies like sailing and tobogganing. Helen became gentler and she learnt to read and write in braille. She also learnt to read people's lips by pressing her fingertips against them and feeling the movement and vibrations. This method is called Tadoma and it is a skill that very, very few people manage to get. She also learnt to speak, a major achievement for someone who could not hear at all. In 1888 they both went to the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston. Here Anne continued to teach Helen but with the equipment and books provided by the school. Then in 1894 they went to the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York. Anne attended the lessons with Helen and acted as her interpreter. She tapped out what the teachers said into Helen's hand and transcribed all of the books into braille. Helen turned out to be a very good scholar, graduating with honours from Radcliffe College in 1904. She had great concentration and memory and determination to succeed. While she was still at college she wrote 'The Story of My Life'. This was an immediate success and earned her enough ...
