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Famous People with Disabilities FOR MORE, go to http://www.brookespublishing.com/adapted-physical-education CHAPTER 17 ■ APPENDIX Famous People with Disabilities ATHLETES O.J. Simpson (football) Learning disability Jim Abbott (baseball) Physical disability (hand Kenny Walker (football) Deafness amputation) Kristi Yamaguchi (figure skating) Asthma Muhammad Ali (boxing) Brain injury Lance Armstrong (cycling) Cancer POLITICIANS Larry Brown (football) Hearing impairment Winston Churchill Learning disability Harold Connelly (track and field) Physical Robert Dole Physical disability (right arm) disability (left arm) John F. Kennedy Physical disability (back injury), Tom Dempsey (football) Physical disability Addison disease ( congenital foot deformity) Abraham Lincoln Depression, Marfan syndrome Jim Eisenreich (baseball) Tourette syndrome (a connective tissue disorder) Sean Elliot (basketball) Kidney disease George Patton Learning disability Pete Gray (baseball) Physical disability (had one Ronald Reagan Alzheimer disease arm) Franklin D. Roosevelt Physical disability Nancy Hogshead (swimming) Asthma Woodrow Wilson Learning disability Catfish Hunter (baseball) Diabetes, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Bruce Jenner (track and field) Learning disability ACTORS Magic Johnson (basketball) HIV Chris Burke Down syndrome Jackie Joyner-Kersee (track and field) Asthma Cher Dyslexia (Cher uses a reading coach to learn Tony Lazzeri (baseball) Epilepsy television, movie, and commercial scripts.) Greg Louganis (diving) Asthma, HIV Tom Cruise Dyslexia (Cruise uses a reading coach to learn scripts.) Walter Payton (football) Kidney disease Sammy Davis, Jr. Visual impairment Wilma Rudolph (track and field) Physical disability (birth defects and polio) Walt Disney Learning disability (Disney did not learn how to read until he was 9. He drew Ron Santo (baseball) Diabetes, physical disability pictures to help him remember what he was (leg amputation) learning.) 287 Block_Ch17.indd 287 1/14/16 1:57 PM FOR MORE, go to http://www.brookespublishing.com/adapted-physical-education 288 Supporting Across Contexts Michael J. Fox Parkinson disease MUSICIANS Annette Funicello Parkinson’s disease Beethoven Deafness Danny Glover Learning disability (Glover was Ray Charles Blindness placed in a class for students with intellectual Jacqueline du Pré Multiple sclerosis disabilities until he was in high school, and he did not learn how to read or write until after he John Lennon Learning disability graduated from school.) Freddie Mercury AIDS Whoopi Goldberg Dyslexia (Goldberg uses a read- Itzhak Perlman Physical disability ing coach to help her learn scripts.) Stevie Wonder Blindness James Earl Jones Communication disability ( stuttering) (Jones did not speak in school because he was so embarrassed. He learned to OTHER FAMOUS PEOPLE speak without stuttering by reading poetry. Hans Christian Andersen (writer) Learning Poetry has a rhythm to it, and people who disability stutter often can sing or read poetry.) Agatha Christie (writer) Learning disability Marlee Matlin Deafness Thomas Edison (inventor) Deafness Richard Pryor Multiple sclerosis Albert Einstein (physicist and Nobel Christopher Reeve Quadriplegia laureate) Learning disability Stephen Hawking (physicist and writer) Amyo- trophic lateral sclerosis Helen Keller (writer) Deafness and blindness Darci Kistler (ballerina) Diabetes Sources: Appenzeller (1983); Getskow and Konezal (1996); Zygmunt, Larson, and Tilson (1994) Block_Ch17.indd 288 1/14/16 1:57 PM.
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