<P> Helen Keller was viewed as isolated, but was very in touch with the outside world . She was able to enjoy music by feeling the beat and she was able to have a strong connection with animals through touch . She was delayed at picking up language, but that did not stop her from having a voice . </P> <P> In May 1888, Keller started attending the Perkins Institute for the Blind . In 1894, Keller and Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright - Humason School for the Deaf, and to learn from Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf . In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts, and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College, where she lived in Briggs Hall, South House . Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife Abbie, paid for her education . In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe, becoming the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree . She maintained a correspondence with the Austrian philosopher and pedagogue Wilhelm Jerusalem, who was one of the first to discover her literary talent . </P> <P> Determined to communicate with others as conventionally as possible, Keller learned to speak, and spent much of her life giving speeches and lectures on aspects of her life . She learned to "hear" people's speech by reading their lips with her hands--her sense of touch had heightened . She became proficient at using braille and reading sign language with her hands as well . Shortly before World War I, with the assistance of the Zoellner Quartet, she determined that by placing her fingertips on a resonant tabletop she could experience music played close by . </P> <P> On January 22, 1916, Keller and Sullivan traveled to the small town of Menomonie in western Wisconsin to deliver a lecture at the Mabel Tainter Memorial Building . Details of her talk were provided in the weekly Dunn County News on January 22, 1916: </P>

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