Anne attended class with Helen and spelled-out the lectures for her.
Anne's teaching success and Helen's accomplishments gained national attention, including a visit to the White House to meet First Lady Grace Coolidge, who was a former teacher of deaf children.
Anne's own health declined, however, and by 1935 she was completely blind.
Anne Mansfield Sullivan (later Macy), a 19-year-old orphan of Irish immigrants, was chosen for the task.
Sullivan’s first task was to break through the barrier of darkness and silence that surrounded the child.
Her life was the subject of a motion picture, The Unconquered (1954), and her childhood training with AnneSullivan was the subject of a play by William Gibson, The Miracle Worker (1959), which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1960.
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