What is a Dyslexia?
[superquote]As with other learning disabilities, dyslexia is a lifelong challenge that people are born with. This language processing disorder can hinder reading, writing, spelling and sometimes even speaking.
Dyslexia is not a sign of poor intelligence or laziness.
It is also not the result of impaired vision. Children and adults with dyslexia simply have a neurological disorder that causes their brains to process and interpret information differently.
Dyslexia occurs among people of all economic and ethnic backgrounds. Often more than one member of a family has dyslexia . . . Read Article[/superquote]
Be Inspired
By the Achievements and Abilities!
Take a quick look into the archives of people with Amputations who became famous.1 min 29 s
Be Informed
Links to bio’s of famous people with dyslexia to learn more about each person:
- Agatha Christie
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Cher
- Dale S. Brown
- Danny Glover
- George Burns
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Henry Winkler
- Jackie Stewart
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Magic Johnson
- Thomas Edison
- Tom Cruise
- Walt Disney
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Winston Churchill
- Woodrow Wilson
- Fannie Flagg
- George Patton
- Harry Belafonte
- Richard Branson
- Nelson Rockefeller
- Neil Bush
- Tracey Gold
- Bruce Jenner
- Jay Leno
- Tom Smothers
- Charles Schwab
- Edward Hallowell
- Edward James Olmos
- Gustave Flaubert
- Victor Villaseñor
- Russell White
- Nolan Ryan
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Stephen J. Cannell
- Paul J. Orfalea
- John Corcoran
- Harry Anderson
- John “Jack” Horner
- Richard Strauss
- David Jones
- Dr. Red Duke
- Anne Bancroft
- Eric Wynalda
- Frank Harper Dunkle
- Fred Currey
- Gaston Caperton
- Greg Louganis
- Lindsay Wagner
- Nancy L. Sonnabend
- Patricia Polacco
- Roger W. Wilkins
- Stephen Bacque
- Sylvia Law
- Terri Bowersock
- Thomas H. Kean
- Tomima Edmark
- William B. Yeats
- William James
- William Simmons
- Michale Heseltine
- Werner Von Braun
