Was Helen Keller born blind and deaf?
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<No,she was not born blind and deaf.Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her disabilities were caused by a fever in February, 1882 when she was 19 months old. Her loss of ability to communicate at such an early developmental age was very traumatic for her and her family, and she became quite unmanageable because of it.\n\nKeller was born at an estate called Ivy Green, on June 27, 1880. She was not born blind and deaf, but actually a typical, healthy, beautiful little girl. It was not until nineteen months later that she came down with an illness that the doctors described as an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain. Keller did not have the illness for a long time, but the illness left her blind, deaf, and unable to speak. By age seven she had invented over sixty different signs that she could use to communicate with her family.
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This is old news isn't it.  You might think about why you can't move on what you know in your gut.  Helen Keller Who could not see nor hear wrote "One door closes on happiness, another opens"
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Disabilities are varied and different. I am sure you aware that the late Christopher Reeve was Paralyzed, he had a physical disability. That is the most obvious of the disabilities. Others are Blindness, Deafness, Arthritis, etc. Then there are "hidden" disabilities i.e. Learning Disabilities such as Dyslexia and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD),there is also Mental Illness such as Depression, Bi-polar Disorder, etc. More than 10% of the US population have some kind of disability or another.
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Well, depending on what kind of "mentally challenged" you mean, the answer could be yes or no.\n\nThere are several kinds of neurological disorders that result in a brain that is simply differently wired, with IQs in the normal range or higher. Because the brain is extremely adaptable, it will often compensate for deficits in one area by making other areas work more efficiently. That's why a blind person often has very good hearing: He doesn't have any visual input to process; so his brain specializes on the next most informative sense: Hearing.\n\nSome disorders are like that. ADHD is associated with originality; autism with very good visual-spatial skills; bipolar disorder with creative talent, especially in the arts. So people with these disorders are also more likely to have talents that people without them don't have. People with these disorders look at them as mixed blessings, or even as gifts.\n\nI don't know what it's like to be anyone but myself; so I don't know which disorders other than my own (Asperger Syndrome, a mild form of autism) fit into the category I just described. And I do consider AS to be a gift, in some ways. I'm socially clumsy, and I can't tolerate some sensory input; but I also have very good logical reasoning skills, I approach problems in original ways, and I have quite a lot of talents in my areas of special interest.\n\nBut all in all, people with psychological, neurological, or biological isorders that affect their mental functioning have one big problem: They are square pegs trying to fit into round holes. They are not the majority; so the world is not designed for them. It could be prejudice or the need for accomodations or some aspect of the disorder itself; but being ill-suited for the world you live in can be a difficult thing. Even your talents may not be the sort of thing the world is looking for.\n\nRegarding people with low IQs and severe disorders with no positive aspects. Individual personalities may indeed make them feel superior to others, just as neurologically average people may feel superior to people in general, whether their IQs are higher or lower than their own; but that seems to be a personality trait unconnected to any disorder.\n\nFrom what I can tell, all but the most profoundly affected are aware that they are different; but in a loving family, with good support and the accomodations they need to live in the world, they need not feel inferior or unwanted. These folks have the same goal that any of us have--the pursuit of happiness, in whatever form that takes for them; and why should a happy life ever be called an inferior one?
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Yes. The blind man has extra ordinary powers in order to compensate him the blindness. This is a miracle of God as he is deprived by eyes but he has been given extra powers of touch and doing work with hands. YOU must have seen that blilndmen are also much educated and they learn and memorize lessons more perfectly than the person with eyesights. This is a miracle of God.
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how do you injure helen keller?\nrearrange her furniture\n\nWhat do you call a blonde with more than one brain cell?\npregnant
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very detailed answer with links to look at:\n\nhttp://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=99188\n\nanother link:  \n     "The answer, simply put, appears to be "no." When people born blind were questioned about what they "see" in dreams in several studies, their answers indicate that the experience of vision first is needed before it can be translated into a dream. Those blind for a lifetime instead experience other keenly developed senses in their dreams--i.e., the sensation of moving around, the emotion of joy, etc.\n\n     Dream images of the blind instead seem to be reconstructions of objects based on sensory input such as touch and sound, just as occurs in waking life. But can these images be accurately described as visual? Can an object be recreated in detail if the dreamer has in fact never experienced seeing it?\n\n     Other studies indicate that individuals blind at birth do see visual images. But it can be argued that these images are constructs based on input from other senses (and on what the dreamer has been told by the sighted about what these objects look like)."\n\nhttp://vision.about.com/od/severevisionloss/f/blinddreams.htm
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Because initially those who could not speak were thought of as "dumb".. then it was derogatory, but even after it was learned and understood, the term remained.  So now, when someone is described as deaf, dumb and blind, we know that they cannot hear, speak or see.
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Sometimes blind people can see shadows and light, which can cause headaches. Or, they might have something physically wrong with their eyes that they don't want everyone to see. A deaf person doesn't need to wear earmuffs because your ears are already covered and it's not going to make a difference. If you need some serious information about persons with disabilities, check the following website. It is not funny to make fun of person with disabilities. In any forum. It can even lead to lawsuits and makes you look very unattractive.
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This site will give you even more than you need : \nhttp://www.afb.org/braillebug/helen_keller_bio.asp
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Jet them watch Helen Keller movie. Helen Keller was being raised like an animals. Helen Keller was taught how to be human after being left out to do what ever she pleased like an animal. Later on if you like theater you can do a lil play on Helen Keller.
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Color Blindness is recessive and only found on the X chromosome.\nMales have XY, females have XX.\nSo, for a person to be color blind, they must have both alleles for color blindness. But, since it is only carried on the X chromosome, if a male's X chromosome has the allele for color blidness on it, he has it, since there is no other allele in the Y chromosome to cancel it out. However, on a female, she can have a color blind allele on one X chromosome and a normal vision allele on the other, which overpowers the recessive color blindness.\n\nIn this problem, for two people (a male and female) to have normal vision, but one of the sons is color blind, that means the father has a normal allele on his X, but the mother has one color blind allele on one of her X chromosomes. Since males only need one allele, this leaves the possibility that the mother gives her color blind allele to one son, but not to the other, with the father giving a Y to both. But for a girl, they would need two color blind alleles. The mother can give one, but the father's X chromosome holds the normal allele. This means every daughter in the family will have normal vision.
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This a question I answered once!\n\n1. Blind born people aren't able to visualize because the visual area is not developped\n2. People that blind during their life ... is possible if visual area is intact ... ask someone in this category ...
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Hey by the way the correct spelling is "Interested."\n\nYou already know I am deaf, so no introductions here. But anyways, I'd like to share something that is kind of interesting from a deaf perspective.\n\nI grew up speaking and lip-reading all my life going to hearing schools. Yes, I did have oral education, but only up to 6th grade. It became a part-time thing all through elementary school, then no more of that after that.\n\nI had never learnt sign language because I was always in hearing schools, and I lived too far from my old deaf classmates to be able to socialize with them on a regular basis. So I pretty much was not part of the deaf culture for most of my life growing up.\n\nI attended a community college that had a small deaf program (Ohlone College). I also played on the tennis team. There was another deaf girl on the tennis team too. She only communicated via ASL with no lipreading. I only communicated via speaking. Despite the fact that we were both deaf, we could not communicate at all!\n\nIt was so strange. I truly felt what hearing people felt sometimes when they try to communicate with a deaf person. I was taking ASL 1 at the same time, so each day I was not only learning more signs in class, I was also learning them from her. Those first six months were probably the fastest I had ever learnt a language. I didn't even have to go to class nor did I have to study it because I already knew it all! Got an easy A plus in ASL 1!\n\nThis experience taught me what it really felt like to be in hearing people's shoes with the hearing perspective on deafness. So I already know what it feels like to be on both sides of the fence. I also learnt that it is possible to really learn a new language very quickly if you really have a strong desire to communicate with someone. It just takes regular practice and dedication on a regular basis, and then before you know it, you already become fluent in it.
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no. \n\nit doesn't make you blind.\n\ninstead, it makes you see wonderful things about your life that have always been there, though you never noticed them.\n\nit doesn't make you deaf.\n\ninstead, it makes you hear many fascinating sounds that you never cared about before.\n\nit doesn't make you mute.\n\ninstead, it makes you creatively express yourself and your emotions more\n\nit doesn't make you brainless.\n\ninstead it renews your brain and feeds your mind.
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Umm....how about Braille himself?  He developed the system that has allowed millions of blind people to "read."  I'd say that's success by anyone's definition.\n\nBut here's another that might fit the bill.  I found the following story on a National Federation of the Blind website (see citation below).  It's about a man who became a lawyer against much opposition and incorrect assumption about what a blind person can and can't do.  The story is entitled, "Living My Dream," by Ron Gardner.  (You can find it about 1/3 of the way  down the page.)  \n\nOne of the things Ron says is, "I want to demonstrate that belief in and adherence to the philosophy of the National Federation of the Blind leads to independence, success, and achievement. It can also come to change what it means to be blind in the minds of society."\n\nOne aspect of the NFBs philosophy is to utilize proper tools to aid blind people to becoming fully functioning participants in society.  One of those tools is braille.\n\nI'd say this guy is a success not only for what he's accomplished in terms of career, but what he's accomplished in changing society's views of what it means to be blind.
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Someone who was born blind experiences sounds, smells, and sensations while dreaming, but since the brain possesses no visual information, the dreams are not visual, says Charles Crawford, executive director of the American Council of the Blind. A blind person's brain might combine sensory information into a representational image of an object, but that image would bear little resemblance to the object itself. \n\nBy contrast, people who become blind as children or adults do have visual dreams, but their dream images depict the world as it appeared around the time they lost their sight. "I lost my vision by the time I was 22," says Crawford. "When I have visual dreams, the images are of the world before the 1960s."