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Why did Miss Sullivan repeatedly spell "w-a-t-e-r" into Helen's hands while pouring water over them?
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Why did Miss Sullivan repeatedly spell "w-a-t-e-r" into Helen's hands while

pouring water over them?

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helen is blind and deaf so pressing each letter to the hand to form a word and then feel the meaning

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So Helen could understand it's called water and not something else

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