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Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XII, Issue 4, 1 October 1919, Page 160

Miss Helen Keller, who won such a remarkable victory over the disability of being blind, deaf, and dumb, that she was able to study and take a degree of Bachelor of Arts, has made a still more remarkable achievement. She has taught herself to spea . The manner m which she learned to speak, although deprived of the power of sight and hearing, is thus described by her teacher : " Day after day for years Helen has put her hand on my face, her fingers m my mouth, and felt my tongue, and

imitated the positions, and repeated them over and over, until she has approximated natural normal speech. She is understood by almost everybody after they get accustomed to her voice. It is monotonous, it must be monotonous, because it has been learned m this mechanical way. But the last two years we think it has improved a good deal." Miss Keller recently gave an eloquent address at a New Church Convention m Chicago.