Helen+Keller+2008-2009

Helen Keller and Others with Disabilities
Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. We talked about what she had to go through in her life. What happened to her? How did she overcome it? How should we treat people with disabilities? ||< I think it would be hard to have a disability. I think they should be able to live in a regular house. You should treat them like everybody else. They are just like you. They just have a problem. It is not their fault. || ||< People with disabilities need to be treated nice and you should be helpful to them. You can hold the door for them. You can help them carry things and help them pick up something. || ||< Disabled people are not much different from us. You can still be friends with them. They just need a little more help. Deaf people need hearing help. Blind people need help seeing things because their eyes are damaged. They can still do things like other people can. If you want to be their friend, it will make them feel better! || ||< If someone is blind, deaf, or unable to speak, they're important just like us. They do not need to be watched all day long. They can do everything they want to do. They can clean and cook. They can drive a car. They can play sports. They can work. They can shop. They can wash clothes. They just need to learn how to do it. || ||< If you are blind, that doesn't mean you can't do things. You can still feel stuff. You can still eat. If you are deaf, that doesn't mean you will never talk. You can learn like Helen Keller did. She learned from a woman who taught blind and deaf people. || ||< You might think that making fun of people who are blind, deaf, or crippled is OK, right? WRONG!!! They are people just like you and they have feelings too. Just because they are blind, deaf, or crippled doesn't mean they can't fit it. They can. Anne Sullivan was a little blind and she taught Helen Keller that words and things have meaning. Helen Keller read little dots. Blind people rub their hands over them and know what it means. Helen Keller even wrote a book about her life! Blind, deaf, and/or crippled people go to school and college and can do what anyone else can do...sorta. Just because they are blind, deaf, and/or crippled doesn't mean they are nothing. So before you treat them wrong, think twice! || ||< If I was Helen Keller's friend, I would treat her like I want to be treated. || ||< I learned that they use their hands to spell words. I learned they want to have a good life too. They learn things too. || ||< I learned it is hard being deaf, blind, and unable to talk because you don't know where to go and where you are. So it is very hard if you are deaf, blind, and can't talk. || ||< I learned that it is hard being deaf, not being able to talk, and can't see. You have to be smart to be deaf, not able to talk, and can't see. When you feel the little bumps on the sign, you have to know which bumps mean which letter. || ||< I know that you can still be deaf and blind people's friend. You can teach them stuff too. You can visit them too. You should treat these people special. We should visit people like Helen Keller. || ||< I learned that there is nothing that keeps someone from learning. If you can't speak and you can't hear, you can use sign signals. If you're blind, you can use braille. All three are big problems in life, but you can still learn. || ||< Deaf people have a hard time understanding what you say. That is why I am nice to them. || ||< I learned that having a disability is hard, but you can still get around with a little help. You can learn to do a lot of things that you could not do before. || ||< I think people who have a disability should be treated special because they have trouble doing the things that other people do. Helen Keller was unable to see or hear. People like Helen Keller should have somebody to teach them things or have a seeing-eye dog. || ||< I think they are very nice and we should help them. We should teach them all we know. We should also be nice to them. || ||< I learned that people with disabilites can be very smart and pleasant. They can do many things. They can help other things like the environment, plants, and animals. They can also make and build things. || ||< I think that Helen Keller was blind and deaf, but she could accomplish anything. I also think she was very smart. You should be very kind to people with disabilities. I think she and the other people with disabilities should have a nice life. || ||< I learned that if a person is deaf and blind, one person has to do sign language. The other person has to feel it to know what the word is. People that can not speak can feel vibrations in their throat and speak. Heller Keller said, "Water." || ||< There are some people that can help you if you are blind like Helen Keller. If you were blind, deaf, and mute, they would do sign language on your hand and you would feel the letter that he/she was making. For example, water would make those letters and then you would finally realize what they are saying once you have done a lot. || ||< You should always be nice to everybody with a disability. I learned that when you can't hear or talk, that is frustrating. || ||< I know blind people have a hard time hearing and seeing. Some blind people have trained dogs to help them go where they want to. Blind people can to go a blind school. || ||< I think we should not hurt people with disabilities. I learned that some people with disabilities go to the Helen Keller deaf and blind school. People with disabilities read books by feeling on the bumps on the books. || ||< You can be friendly with them. You could learn sign language. Just because people are blind and deaf doesn't mean that they are dumb. They are smart. || ||< People who are blind can't see. People can't hear if they are deaf. They need translators. People like that help and communicate. || ||< I learned that some people have disabilites but they're still people inside. They're nice, loving, and smart. The people that are mute can't talk, but they can use sign language. || ||< People with disabilities are very smart. If they are mean, they are just trying to learn. Most people have something wrong with their bones. Even though they have disabilities you can still be their friend. || ||< Being blind isn't bad. Some people who are blind and deaf are actually pretty smart. It can be hard though. Sometimes people like that throw tantrums. Being blind can be hard, but some people are adapted to it. || ||< I learned about people with disabilities. For example, Helen Keller had two disabilities. She was both blind and deaf. People with one disability are lucky. I also learned that people with disabilities are like us. They are like everybody else. We should always treat them like me and you. They are like us. || ||< I learned that when you are blind and deaf, you have a good sense of feeling and smell. You can still learn. You can still feel with your hands. You can still smell with your nose. When you can't see, your senses get stronger. || ||< Some disabled people are not able to see, hear, or talk, but they are able to touch, feel, and smell. This is how they really get around most of the time. They are nice people. You can teach them words and do sign language with them. || ||< I learned any person who is blind, deaf, or with any other handicap can do anything. People that are handicap can overcome any challenge. People like this are the strongest people there are. || ||< Some children are born blind. Being blind isn't easy. Blind means you can't see. Some ways people help blind people is braille. Braille is a lot of dots. The blind person runs their fingers over them and knows what it says. || ||< I learned that if people have trouble getting around, they touch things. That helps you know where things are in your house. You can be their friend, buddy, cousin, aunt, or uncle. || ||< I learned that when people have a disability, people have pity. Don't have pity. That makes them spoiled. We don't need to think they are dumb. They are not. They need lots of attention, but they are normal people. They have fun. They have feelings too. || ||< I think that being deaf, blind, and unable to speak is okay. I don't know anybody that has those problems. I don't think if you have those problems people should not throw you in some place where you can't be like a normal person. || ||< People with disabilities need to be treated in a nice way. Don't be mean to people with disabilites. || ||< You should treat other people right. If they are elderly, they they can still have a proper life. You should still watch out for them because they can get hurt easy. || ||< You can still be their friend. You have to show them where to go. You also have to help them when they are doing something wrong like pick up knives and stuff like that. || ||< People with disabilities are the same as you. You need to give them a chance. You shouldn't be mean to them. You don't need to talk about them. Maybe someday they could be a famous person. || ||< I learned it would be hard for someone who is deaf or blind. They can't always play with their friends. They may have a hard time at school. || ||< I would love to be Helen Keller's best friend. She needs help walking. She was deaf and blind. She was sweet and loving too. || ||< Blind people can't see. They can talk and hear. I feel bad for them. They might get hurt. || ||< I learned from the movie that you can teach people with disabilites. If they are deaf, you can teach them to speak. Just be nice to people with disabilities. || ||< If someone is blind, I can help them get around. I can help them learn how to do sign language. I love to help people that can not see or hear. || ||< I think it would be hard because they can't do everything other kids can. You need to treat these people nice and help them. If you do, they won't feel left out. || ||< I think we can get along with blind and deaf people. We should treat them nice and not mean. They can still make a lot of friends with this disability. || ||< I learned that I can be someone's friend by helping them get things that they need. I learned that I need to be kind to them. || ||< It would be hard to be blind because you could not see where you are going. You might run into a lot of stuff. You would have to learn to read braille. ||
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