Amber Lee Dodd
Playwright and Children’s Author 🔊 Listen I really struggled to read because I was horrifically dyslexic. I was the last child to come off reading books, but when I finally managed to pick up the skills to be able to […]
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Octavia Spencer
Award-Winning Actor 🔊 Listen “I was a dyslexic child and am a dyslexic adult; that doesn’t really mean that you’re not intelligent – it just means that your brain functions differently.” “I just remember thinking differently. I could solve […]
» Read moreJosh Almeida
President / Owner Ascend Studios 🔊 Listen Josh Almeida leads a company which designs creative environments for the hospitality industry, including LED video walls, audio, video, architectural lighting and even underwater speakers. He describes his experiences growing up dyslexic in this video: […]
» Read moreAnnie Crummer
Singer 🔊 Listen I can’t read or write, I can’t read music. Not many people know that about me. When I was a child it probably wasn’t understood among the Polynesian community at that time what dyslexia was. […]
» Read moreJohn B. Goodenough
Born 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 🔊 Listen John Goodenough, known for his work in improving the design of the lithium ion battery, was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2013, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019. […]
» Read moreWallace Broecker
1931-2019 Geophysicist – Climate Scientist 🔊 Listen Wallace Brocker popularized the term “global warming” and also coined the term “the global conveyor” for the ocean currents that circulate warm water around the globe. He was dyslexic and said he never […]
» Read moreGeorge M. Church
Born 1954 Geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist. 🔊 Listen Known for his work in the sequencing of genomes, in synthetic biology, in genome engineering, and in an emerging area of neuroscience that proposes to map brain activity and establish a “functional […]
» Read moreMads Johan Øgaard
Artist and Animator 🔊 Listen I am a big fan of the book The Gift of Dyslexia by Ronald D Davis, it truly changed my life at the age of 12. It was the first book I brought and read […]
» Read moreHelen B. Taussig
1898-1986 Pediatric Cardiologist 🔊 Listen Helen Brooke Taussig is known as the founder of pediatric cardiology for her pioneering work developing a surgical shunt to treat “blue baby” syndrome. She also helped prevent a thalidomide birth defect crisis in the […]
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