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What technique was adopted by Miss Sullivan to teach Helen ? |
| Answer» Miss Sullivan deserves all the praise she received fromHelen. She taught her with immense patience and love. She endured her initialstubbornness to her methodology. She devised unique and innovative methods toteach Helen the secrets of language, reading, speaking, imagination, and othermysteries of life. She was always there with her in her ups and downs. Nodoubt, Helen considered her teacher as her own inseparable part!Miss Sullivan took unprecedented pains to teach Helen manual alphabet. SinceHelen was suffering from hearing as well as visual disabilities, Miss Sullivanreally had to work very hard to teach Helen the alphabet. In the 7 chapter,Helen praises Miss Sullivan in the following words: "Thus I learned fromlife itself. At the beginning I was only a mass of possibilities. It was myteacher who unfolded and developed them. When she came, everything about mebreathed of love and joy and was full of meaning." It was Miss Sullivan\'sgenius, her sympathy, her loving tact and expert teaching skills which made thefirst years of Helen\'s education so beautiful. Miss Sullivan made learning easyand fun-filled for Helen.\xa0Miss Sullivan preferred teaching Helen out of doors in close proximity withnature . Miss Sullivan ensured Helen touched each and everything she learnt.One of their favourite learning spots was Keller\'s Landing, an old wharf on theTennessee river, where Helen learnt Geography. There Helen made dams ofpebbles, islands and lakes, dug river beds while Miss Sullivan described thephysical and topographical features of the round world. Miss Sullivan woulddescribe to Helen the burning mountains, buried cities, moving rivers of ice,etc. She made raised maps in the clay in relief so that Helen could feel themountain ridges, valleys, and the devious course of rivers.The mystery of the language was revealed to Helen by Miss Sullivan. MissSullivan was an expert teacher who was trained to teach the blind children.However, she had to be very patient and innovative while teaching Helen as shehad hearing disability too. Miss Sullivan would often write the spelling of theall the objects on Helen\'s hand after allowing her to touch them. For exampleafter giving her doll for a while, she would spell the word "d-o-l-l"on her hand. Miss Sullivan had to face a great difficulty many times makingthings clear to Helen. Once Helen got stuck at knowing the difference between\'water\' and \'mug\'. Miss Sullivan took Helen out; she put her hand underthe spout and let Helen feel the cool stream on one hand, and on her other handMiss Sullivan spelled the word "w-a-t-e-r". That living word awakenedher soul to the secret of learning words with their meanings. | |