Aakash Odedra

Dancer & Choreographer 🔊 Listen Diagnosed with dyslexia at a young age, Aakash Odedra  found conventional education at school very challenging. He felt defined by his learning difficulties, rather than his abilities. As written language was so alien, dance became […]

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Harry Belafonte

March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) Singer, Actor & Activist 🔊 Listen I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically […]

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Cher

Actor and Singer 🔊 Listen I never read in school. I got really bad grades—D’s and F’s and C’s in some classes, and A’s and B’s in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. […]

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Annie 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.   […]

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