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According to a recent report of a conversation with one of the
principals of the school in which her education is being
completed, it is said that since the girl has been under his care
he has been teaching her to sing with great success. Placing the
fingers of her hands on the throat of a singer, she is able to
follow notes covering two octaves with her own voice, and sings
synchronously with her instructor. The only difference between
her voice and that of a normal person is in its resonant
qualities. So acute has this sense become, that by placing her
hand upon the frame of a piano she can distinguish two notes not
more than half a tone apart. Helen is expected to enter the
preparatory school for Radcliffe College in the fall of 1896.
At a meeting of the American Association to Promote the Teaching
of Speech to the Deaf, in Philadelphia, July, 1896, this child
appeared, and in a well-chosen and distinct speech told the
interesting story of her own progress. Miss Sarah Fuller,
principal of the Horace Mann School for the Deaf, Boston, is
credited with the history of Helen Keller, as follows:--
"Helen Keller's home is in Tuscumbia, Ala. At the age of nineteen
months she became deaf, dumb, and blind after convulsions lasting
three days.
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