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Tom Cruise Whoopi Goldberg diagnosed at age 7 he struggled with Dyslexia through Academy Award-winning actress, comedian, radio host, and highschool but developed specific reading and study habits. television personality. She is one of the only ten people to win Today he has achieved worldwide fame as an actor an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award; and is the first woman to be honored with the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. is a UNICEF International Goodwill Ambassador. Was bullied as a child by her peers but it did not Magic Johnson stop her from pursuing her dreams. Earvin Effay Johnson, Jr. (born August 14, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan) is a retired American National Basketball Association George Washington (NBA) basketball player for the Los First president of the United Angeles Lakers. Johnson is States and one of 11 acknowledged as one of the most presidents who lived with popular NBA basketball players of one or several disabilities. It is all time, being well-known for his speculated he had Dyslexia. uncanny passing and dribbling Commander-in-Chief of the skills, and for his cheerful nature Continental Army during the on and off the court. In the words American Revolutionary War of Magic Johnson: "The looks, the and elected unanimously as stares, the giggles . I wanted to the first President of the show everybody that I could do United States of America. better and also that I could read." Dale S. Brown is a strategic leadership consultant at Washington D.C and an author. Her most recent book is called "Steps to Independence for people with Learning Disabilities" which was published by Learning Disabilities Association of America in 2005. Dale suffers herself from dyslexia and wants to tell Albert Einstein the world that learning Being one of the most important great minds of his century Albert disabilities does not have to Einstein was then known to suffer from dyslexia mainly because of his stop you from being who bad memory and his constant failure to memorize the simplest of you want to be. It does not things. He would not remember the months in the year yet he would have to stop you from succeed in solving some of the most complicated mathematical striving or harm your formulas of the time without any trouble. He may have never learned capabilities to integrate to how to properly tie his shoelaces but his scientific contributions and everyday life. theories still have a major effect on all of today’s current knowledge of science. Hans Christian Andersen Orlando Bloom Being an author of children's First diagnosed at seven Orlando fantasy stories, he was a victim of often was frustrated with his dyslexia and showed the world learning disability. Born in that when you want something, Canterbury, England, he studied nothing can stop you from acting as a child before he was obtaining it. The books that he cast as the heroic Legolas in Peter wrote have been translated into Jackson's film adaptation of The hundreds of different languages Lord of the Rings trilogy. Bloom and continue to be distributed also found major success starring even today in millions of copies. in three films of the Pirates of the Hans wrote books such as "The Caribbean franchise with Johnny Emperor's New Clothes", "The Depp. He's landed other roles in Princess and the Pea" big-screen fare, including Troy, "Thumbelina", "The Snow Queen", Elizabethtown and The Three "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Musketeers. Mermaid". Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), 28th president of the United States. Wilson did not learn to read until he was about 12 years old. His difficulty reading may have indicated dyslexia or A.D.D., but as a Cher Cher was a fatherless child and was most of the time very poor. Her mother teenager he taught himself shorthand to compensate and was able to tried to make money by singing and acting which ultimately brought Cher to achieve academically through determination and self-discipline. He follow into her footsteps. Due to dyslexia Cher decided she would quit school studied at home under his father's guidance and took classes in a and try to take some acting lessons in Los Angeles to finally do what she loved. small school in Augusta. One day while at the renowned Aldo's Coffee Shop her life changed upon meeting Sonny Bono, which was at the time successful in show business. They eventually made songs together. Nolan Ryan Leonardo Da Vinci born in 1947 in Texas, spent his childhood in Alvin, Texas. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, (1452 - 1519) was a Tuscan polymath: scientist, When he was a child dyslexia was not diagnosed yet and mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, academic challenges along with a lisp were very hard on musician and writer. As an engineer, Leonardo conceived ideas vastly ahead of his own Ryan’s confidence. Nevertheless his baseball career took time, conceptualising a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, and the off and facts speak for themselves; starting with 1969 double hull, and outlining a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. He also had the gift of Winning World Series with the New York Mets all the way dyslexia. Most of the time, he wrote his notes backwards. Although unusual, this is a trait to 1999 being elected to the National Baseball Hall of shared by many left-handed dyslexic people. Most of the time, dyslexic writers are not Fame. even consciously aware that they are writing this way. Agatha Christie Alexander Graham Bell Agatha Christie – (1890 - 1976) Well known as the inventor of Agatha Christie was the world's the telephone Alexander was best selling book writer of all actually attempting to find a times only truly surpassed by the way that could make deaf Bible and equaled by Shakespear, people hear. His mother was her books sold approximately 4 billion copies worldwide. Agatha slowly becoming deaf when suffered from dyslexia but in no Alexander was only 12 years way did it stop her from being old making him extremely creative and learning how to sensitive to disabilities. Once write, her mystery novels have older he was constantly always been some of the most seeking a way to cure them captivating of all times. Her through technology. He bestselling book was without a himself had dyslexia which doubt "And then there was none" would cause him problems at which was a source of inspiration school, but he always kept his for novelists and movie makers even many years after. interest for science, especially biology. He would show a great indifference for everything else and would have poor grades. Today Alexander Graham Bell is also well know as one of the founders of the National Geographic society. Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931) was an American inventor of Dutch origin and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb. In school, the young Edison's mind often wandered. He was noted to be terrible at mathematics, unable to focus, and had difficulty with words and speech. This ended Edison's three months of official schooling. The cause of Edison's deafness has been attributed to a bout of scarlet fever during childhood and recurring untreated middle ear infections. Thomas Edison was dyslexic, a problem child, and a mischief- maker. He talked when he was supposed to be listening and did not listen when the teacher talked. He had no patience. He was not well-coordinated and did poorly in sports. He applied himself with a passion to whatever caught his attention, but his attention was easily diverted. Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso earned his spot as one of the most well-known painters of the 20th century by painting the abnormal. His paintings often presented objects backwards, out of order, or turned any number of ways. But these scenes which we think of as imagination-inspired pieces of art were actually very real to Picasso. Picasso was dyslexic, a learning disability which flipped the orientation of letters and words in his brain. Picasso paintings depicted what he saw, and his dyslexia was no doubt an influence to his famous artwork. Jay Leno Jay Leno has been making humor out of headlines and everyday life since he was a kid. Even after his last night as the host of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, a job he held for more than two decades, Leno plans to continue to perform in comedy venues across the country. He's no stranger to hard work and dedication to his craft and his passions. That hard work, mixed in with perseverance, humor, and a positive attitude, is the recipe for his success in show business and in overcoming his dyslexia. John F. Kennedy, George H.W. Bush & George Bush Several American Presidents had/have dyslexia Sources: some info board borrowed from other AISD PTA Sage chair & http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/success-stories/tom-cruise http://dyslexia.yale.edu/goldberg.html http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_2130.shtml http://sports.jrank.org/pages/4138/Ryan-Nolan-Awards-Accomplishments.html http://www.inc.com/john-rampton/11-us-presidents-who-overcame-a-disability.html http://dyslexia.yale.edu/leno.html http://www.dyslexiacoachnj.com/Famous/ And more.