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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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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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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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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