And yes, approaching learning individual by individual is really the only effective way to go. We should get over 19th century assembly-line models of education, already. We have skills and tools that can help teachers individualize to students' needs, and students participate actively and meaningfully in their own learning. That's the only time real learning, integrated into life, takes place anyhow. But it does a brutal disservice to people with real, neurological learning disabilites to suggest that better teaching will make learning disabilities disappear.
Blind people can learn and read and become incredible forces for change.
She did help her find ways to use her abilities. That's what education, real teaching, is about. It's not comfortable, given the societal baggage that it carries. Things like locking people like Helen Keller away to avoid family shame. Things like misplaced, though well-meaning pity and soppiness, and expecting less from people with disabilities.