In The Story of My Life, Chapter 13, which details help develop Helen Keller's perspective that learning to speak is extremely difficult for deaf children?

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The Story of My Life, Chapter 13

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Only such a one can appreciate the eagerness with which I talked to my toys, to stones, trees, birds and dumb animals, or the delight I felt when at my call Mildred ran to me or my dogs obeyed my commands.
Only such a one can appreciate the eagerness with which I talked to my toys, to stones, trees, birds and dumb animals, or the delight I felt when at my call Mildred ran to me or my dogs obeyed my commands.

I needed Miss Sullivan's assistance constantly in my efforts to articulate each sound clearly and to combine all sounds in a thousand ways. Even now she calls my attention every day to mispronounced words.
I needed Miss Sullivan's assistance constantly in my efforts to articulate each sound clearly and to combine all sounds in a thousand ways. Even now she calls my attention every day to mispronounced words.

The position of the hand is as easy to feel as it is to see. I do not feel each letter any more than you see each letter separately when you read.
The position of the hand is as easy to feel as it is to see. I do not feel each letter any more than you see each letter separately when you read.

In reading my teacher's lips I was wholly dependent on my fingers: I had to use the sense of touch … and often this sense was at fault.

Answer 1

In Chapter 13 of "The Story of My Life," the following details help develop Helen Keller's perspective that learning to speak is extremely difficult for deaf children:

1. I needed Miss Sullivan's assistance constantly in my efforts to articulate each sound clearly and to combine all sounds in a thousand ways. Even now she calls my attention every day to mispronounced words.

   • This emphasizes the ongoing struggle and the necessity of guidance in learning to articulate sounds, highlighting the challenges deaf children face in mastering speech.

2. In reading my teacher's lips I was wholly dependent on my fingers: I had to use the sense of touch … and often this sense was at fault.

   • This illustrates the limitations of relying on touch to communicate and understand speech, indicating how difficult it can be for a deaf child to learn to speak accurately.

These selections strongly convey the difficulties that deaf children encounter when learning to speak, as they rely on aid and have substantial barriers to understanding and producing spoken language.