Anne Sullivan Communication Center Program and houses a large Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing program for all grades and incorporates Mainstreaming as well as self-contained resource rooms. D/HH Students also participate in many local and state-wide extra curricular programs for the deaf. Technology used at Sullivan includes four computer lab and a wireless mobile digital media labs. The school is named after Anne Sullivan, teacher and companion to Helen Keller. Arts for Academic Achievement KBEM-FM news: Periodically school news is made available to the public via the website of local radio station KBEM-FM. Project Success: A series of workshops for students focusing on working toward goals and achieving
Anne Sullivan honorary degrees from Temple University. In 1955 Keller was awarded an honorary degree from Harvard University, and in 1956 the director's cottage at the Perkins School was named the Keller-Macy Cottage. In 2003, Sullivan was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Sullivan had been seriously visually impaired for almost all of her life, but by 1935 she was completely blind in both eyes. On October 15, 1936, she had a coronary thrombosis, fell into a coma, and died five days later on October 20 at age 70, in Forest Hills, Queens, New York with Keller holding her hand.