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How many languages did Helen learn through braille script.
(a)Five
(b)Eight
(c)Two
(d)Three

Answer
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Hint: Helen Adams Keller was famous because being the first blind- deaf person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. She was also an American author, activist, and lecturer and has learned several languages.

Complete answer:
Helen learned five languages out of the three languages are Latin, French, German and she learned and wrote in brail. She founded the American Civil liberties Union (ACLU).

Additional Information: -Helen was not deaf-blind by birth, when she was 19 months old she got sick with high fever which left her blind and deaf.
-Halen was born on 27 June 1880 and died at the age of 87 on 1 June 1968 in the United States.
-Halen learned to “ hear” people’s speech using the Tadoma method in which she used her fingers to feel the lips and throat of the speaker.
-Halen wrote a total of 12 published books with several articles.
-Her first writing was written at the age of 11 named “The frost King” and at the age of 22 she published her autobiography “Story of My life”.
-Braille script writing system for visually impaired people was named after the creator Louis Braille.

So, the correct answer is “Five”.

Note: -Halen and with her family's cook daughter Martha Washington both together invented more than 60 signs to communicate with each other.
-Due to her disabilities, she was forbidden from marrying her fiance because society believes that women with disabilities shouldn’t fall in love and stay alone for the whole life.
-Braille script is a writing pattern used by people who are visually impaired by touching the tiny raised dot on the embossed sheet.