HIT: Famous People -- Learning Disabilities, part 2

[Elizabeth Hart <ehart@supreme.cde.ca.gov>]

The author Avi is a fascinating person who overcame very specific learning
disabilities related to language usage and written language production.

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We just received a wonderful new book.  I read it cover to cover.  It
includes short essays.  Its title is _Extraordinary People With
Disabilities._

The learning disabled people it mentions are:

Edison had ADD

Chris Burke has Down Syndrome

Others with disabilities are:
The contemporary people it includes are:
Wilma Mankiller  Chief of Cherokee Nation
Patty Duke              Actor
Stevie Wonder           Musician
Itzhak Perlman          Violinist
Tom Cruise              Actor
Jim Abbott              Baseball Pitcher
Jackie Joyner-Kersee            Athlete
Marlee Matlin           Actor
Heather Whitestone              Miss America
Chris Burke             Actor

Others in the book are:
John Milton                     poet
Louis Braille           Braille inventor
Thomas Edison           Inventor
Beethoven                       Composer
Harriet Tubman          Rescuer of Slaves
Juliette Gordon Low     Founder of Girl Scouts
Thaddeus Stevens        Congressman
John Wesley Powell      Explorer, Geologist
Helen Keller            Author, Activist
FDR                                     President
Sir Douglas Bader       Pilot, War Hero
Bill Veeck                      Baseball Team Owner
Horace Pippin           Artist
Jacobus tenBroek        Educator, Activist
Alicia Alonso           Ballet Dancer
Dorothea Lange          Photographer
Harold Russell          Actor, Disability Rights Advocate
Roy Campanella          Baseball Player
Frida Kahlo                     Artist
Robert Dole                     Politician
Daniel Inouye           Senator
Audre Lorde                     Poet, Activist
John Langston Gwaltney  Anthropologist
Ed Roberts                      Disability Rights Activist
Stephen Hawking         Physicist
Christy Brown           Writer
Henry Kisor                     Journalist and Book Critic
I. King Jordan          Educator
Beverly Butler          Writer
Judi Chamberlin         Mental Patients' Activist
John Callahan           Cartoonist
Temple Grandin          Livestock Handling Equipment Designer
Judy Heumann            Asst. Sec. of Education
Susan Nussbaum          Actor, playwright
Harilyn Rousso          Activist, psychotherapist
John Hockenberry        Journalist
Jean Driscoll           Athlete

In another book are:

Ray Charles
Johnny-No-Legs
Jay J. Armes
Kathy Miller
Ted Kennedy, Jr.
Kitty O'Neil


Elizabeth Hart
Library Technical Assistant
California School for the Blind
Fremont, CA  94536
ehart@csb.cde.ca.gov

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