A biography of the blind and deaf woman who rose above her physical disabilities to international renown and who helped other handicapped persons live fuller lives.
Introduces Helen Keller and tells of her childhood struggles with deafness and blindness which led her to a successful career as a public speaker, writer, and champion of rights for the disabled.
Follows the parallel lives of Helen Keller and Alexander Graham Bell, who continued to encounter and support each other from that eventful meeting when he recommended she be given a teacher and thus led her to Annie Sullivan.