However, such hurdles seldom affect the most driven people.

Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller was born in the United States in 1880 as a healthy child. However, an illness rendered her both deaf and blind before attaining the age of two. The services available to people with disabilities are undoubtedly below par today, but the situation back then was even worse. In spite of the challenges, Keller’s mother wanted her daughter to receive the best education and sought out experts who could help her achieve that.

Keller attended Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts and became the first deaf-blind person to graduated in 1904 with a bachelor’s degree in arts. During the time at the university, her correspondence with the Austrian philosopher Wilhelm Jerusalem helped him discover her literary talents and marked the beginning of Keller’s career as a writer and a social activist. She became a champion for the cause of people with disabilities and achieved international acclaim for her writings and speeches on topics as diverse as socialism and birth control.

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