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.