Helen Keller – Non-Verbal Communication For Individuals with Autism

Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Demonstrate Self-taught Form of Facilitated Communication

Helen Keller, the blind and deaf American author, political activist and lecturer, is seen in this 1930 newsreel clip as her instructor and lifelong companion, Anne Sullivan, demonstrated how Keller learned to talk. While often described as blind, deaf and mute, the final line of this rare footage proves otherwise. At the end of the…