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 name at birth was Johanna Mansfield Sullivan; however, she was called Anne or Annie from birth. She was the oldest child of Thomas and Alice (Cloesy) Sullivan. Her family emigrated to the United States from Ireland during the Great Famine. When she was only five years old she contracted a bacterial eye disease known as trachoma, which created painful infections and over time made her nearly blind. When she was eight, her mother died, and her father abandoned the children two years later for fear he could not raise them on his own. She and her younger brother, James ("Jimmie"),