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The Miracle Worker William Gibson The Miracle Worker: Post-Reading How do you teach someone who is deaf?? How do you teach someone who is blind?? How do you teach someone who is both blind and deaf?? The Miracle Worker:About Helen Keller Helen was both blind and deaf at 18 months of age. She had forgotten at this point some of the words she had learned. She was described as an “uncontrollable savage” by some. Alexander Graham Bell encouraged her family to accept a teacher from the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston (Annie Sullivian 19). Annie had been an orphan after her parents died and also suffered from very poor vision (legally blind) and she talked her way into Perkins Institution for the blind. Annie sight was restored through extensive surgery. Annie taught Helen by writing letters onto her hand spelling out words. Helen Keller through the expansion of this method no longer dealt with isolation and she learned to speak, attend Radcliff college and graduatte with honors. Helen later lectured to many and wrote several books. The Miracle Worker:  William Gibson on the Rise Mother ran a music school and father a popular pianist. At one point supported himself as a jazz pianist in his teens and twenties. At the city college of NY he took up writing. Gibson’s English professor encouraged him to writer. After 2 years of school he dropped out to launch his writing career. Gibson moved to Topeka, Kansas and married a psychoanalyst. Gibson wrote a play, but did not receive recognition until he began writing poetry. Gibson won the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize in 1945. The novel The Cobweb became a best-seller. The Miracle Worker: William Gibson achieves fame Gibson achieved national recognition for musical in the late 50’s as a playwright.  The Miracle Worker which was the sequel to Monday After the Miracle won him the Pulitzer Prize. The Miracle Worker: Gibson’s topics in writing The Miracle Worker: Gibson’s writing The Miracle