Reaching Helen Keller

Topic: Deaf Culture

Sources:
Cartwright, Lisa. Moral spectatorship: technologies of voice and affect in postwar representations of the child. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008

Davis Lennard J. My sense of silence: memoirs of a childhood with deafness. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000

Marshark, Marc. Raising and educating a deaf child: a comprehensive guide to the choices, controversies, and decisions faced by parents and educators. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Miller, Sarah. Miss Spitfire: reaching Helen Keller. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers. 2007

Williamson, Carylon Estelle. Black deaf students: a model for educational success. Washington, D.C: Gallaudet University Press, 2007.

Reading a couple of pages from Miss Spitfire: reaching Helen Keller gave me an inside look of how hard it is to teach a child who is deaf and blind. Researching about this subculture will be difficult because there several things I can talk about. Mostly from reading this book the inspiring story of Helen Keller was told from the point of view from the woman who helped her named Annie Sullivan.

The thing I found interesting was the different techniques Annie used to teach Helen, like how to function in everyday tasks. This book will be helpful on understanding this subculture more, and give me a better idea on how to approach different sources.