Annie Sullivan taught Helen how to connect objects with letters by spelling words into Helen’s hands. Helen’s breakthrough came when Annie held her hand under a water pump while spelling “water” into her other hand repeatedly. Helen suddenly understood, and from then on progressed by leaps and bounds.
蘇利文在海倫手上拼字,借此教她如何將物體和字母聯(lián)系在一起。有一次安妮把海倫的手放在水泵出水口下,并且在她的另一支手上重復拼寫 water 的時候,海倫突然明白了,她的學習有了重大突破。從此她進步神速。