The Radical Lives of Helen Keller

The challenge of advocacy: the different voices of Helen Keller and Burton Blatt.

The writer talks about how the voices of Helen Keller and Burton Blatt can challenge educators of mental retardation to hold firm to a belief in the miracle of unconditional and sustained commitments and to a legacy of hopefulness. Article: In his book Inventing the Feeble Mind, Trent (1995) described mental retardation as a construction whose changing meaning is shaped both by individuals who ...

Vascular tumors of the iris in 45 patients: the 2009 Helen Keller Lecture.

OBJECTIVE To report on a series of vascular tumors of the iris. DESIGN Noncomparative case series. A retrospective medical record review of all patients with an iris vascular tumor was performed to identify the clinical features and develop a simple classification of these lesions. Included were demographics, clinical features, systemic associations, complications, management, and histopathol...

Homestead Gardening for Combating Vitamin a Deficiency: the Helen Keller International, Bangladesh, Experience

Vitamin A (VA) deficiency is among the major public health problems in most developing countries, including Bangladesh. The consumption of a variety of vegetables, fruits, and animal-source foods has been found to reduce VA deficiency. Animal foods, which are the richest sources of many micronutrients, including VA, are beyond most people’s means in Bangladesh. Therefore, promoting the producti...

HKH : Helen Keller Heuristic, a Common Ground Scenario for Human-Robot Interaction

Lacking a common ground in Human-Robot Interaction is the main source of errors and miscommunications especially for remote exploration robotics. Advances in language and social psychology studies are the rescue, particularly the common ground theory. This paper reviews common ground theory, then it introduces a framework inspired by the miraculous history of Helen Keller. Then a case study is ...

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