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Charley Boorman
Actor, Adventurer, Travel Writer – President of Dyslexia Action Charity 🔊 Listen At the time when I was going to school in Ireland people didn’t really have a clue about what it was, so I had to spend a lot […]
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Journalist and Author 🔊 Listen I started failing math. The school tested me to see why I was struggling and found out I couldn’t read the directions. I was tested further and it was determined I was functionally illiterate. At […]
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Author and writing instructor 🔊 Listen Larry Chambers is a prolific writer who has written more than 1,000 magazine articles and 50 published book on a variety of topics. Many of his books are based on his experience as a decorated […]
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Poet & Memoirist; Author of Eye of the Tiger 🔊 Listen I have been dyslexic all my life…
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February 5, 1941 – September 30, 2010 Television Screen Writer & Producer 🔊 Listen I’ve wanted to be a novelist since I was 16 years old; it was my dream in high school to be a writer and novelist. In […]
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Chef, Author 🔊 Listen I can come up with an impressive assortment of ways to spell the same word…. As a dyslexic, in fact, I specialize in misspelling words. It’s one of the things that convinced me years ago that […]
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Mystery Writer & Educator 🔊 Listen In 1979, prior to many discoveries in the field of learning disabilities, I was broadly diagnosed as “learning disabled, presumed dyslexic” — a theme that resonates through some of my works. John Corrigan is a […]
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1918 – 2002 Author and Psychotherapist 🔊 Listen There was something wrong with my brain. What had previously been a shadowy suspicion that hovered on the edge of consciousness became certain knowledge the year I was nine and entered fourth […]
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15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976 Mystery Writer, Playwright 🔊 Listen Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was…an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so. Dame Agatha Christie was a […]
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