Before Helen Keller became the author of 14 books and an international advocate for the needs of others, she was a young girl ...

Helen was a tiny girl of age seven with a mischievous spirit, and along with it, to put it bluntly, a mean streak. She was unruly with a temper. One day when her mother went into the pantry closet, ...

Maricar Marquez teaches student Tony Giordano how to bake brownies in a DeafBlind equipped kitchen. On Tuesday, Nov. 29, Helen Keller Services (HKS) celebrated the DeafBlind community and the ...

When Helen Keller died in 1968 at the age of 87, she was rightly hailed “as a symbol of the indomitable human spirit” – a heroine who overcame blindness and deafness and triumphed in tragedy. Helen ...

The monuments honoring the two famed native Alabamians will be the first statues of women on the lawn of the Alabama Capitol.

New York, Sept. 22, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- To celebrate its 50 th anniversary, the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths & Adults (HKNC), a division of Helen Keller Services, along with ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Mark Twain once said the two most interesting characters of the 19 th century were Napoleon and Helen Keller, but a series of TikTok-based conspiracy theories have young ...

A musician, Richard Norman Corey — who likes to say "I was born blind beautiful" — sat in an embroidered chair at The Art Guild in Manhasset under a mixed-media collage he created that illustrates his ...

Tony holding his sculpture with students. Anthony (Tony) Giordano, a DeafBlind artist from Helen Keller Services, visited students at Weber Middle School in Port Washington this week to demonstrate ...

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.-- A deaf and blind man is learning to communicate a whole new way. He is creating expressive sculptures, thanks to training at the Helen Keller National Center on Long Island. On ...

Helen Keller is known by most as a remarkable woman who defied her disability by becoming the first deaf blind person to receive a Bachelor's degree, an author and an activist. But until now little ...

Visit Ivy Green, the birthplace of Helen Keller, in this episode of Yellowhammer History Hunt. Helen lost her sight and hearing as a young child but overcame her handicaps to become a renowned writer ...