is the helen keller story compatible with what we know about child development?

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how could helen keller learn to communicate or understand language when she spent the first 7 years of her life devoid of both visual and auditory stimuli? we know from other cases that kids turn out retarded if they aren’t exposed to the right stimuli at the early development stages in their life like with genie the feral child