Up to the age of seven years she had received no instruction.

Her parents engaged Miss Sullivan of the Perkins Institute for the Blind, South Boston, to go to Alabama as her teacher.

She was familiar with methods of teaching the blind, but knew nothing about instructing deaf children.

Miss Sullivan called upon Miss Fuller for some instruction on the subject.

Miss Fuller was at that time experimenting with two little deaf girls to make them speak as hearing children do, and called Miss Sullivan's attention to it.