HIT: Famous people with LD (Long)

[Rod and Lisa Dreesman <dreesman@NETINS.NET>]

Dear LM-Netters,
Several weeks ago I posted a TARGET looking for sources for finding info. on
famous people with learning disabilities. I received many responses--all of
them useful. Here, FINALLY, is the hit. Thank you so much for your help!!
(And was the special education teacher impressed with this group! :-)

--Lisa Dreesman,Library Media Specialist
Carroll Middle School / Adams Elementary
Carroll, IA
dreesman@netins.net
ldreesman@carroll.k12.ia.us

Websites

http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/general/famous.html

http://www.ldonline.org/kidzone/inter_act/celebrity_quiz.html

http://www.delphi.com/disable/famous.html

http://www.northcoast.com/~hope/famous5.txt

http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/~rowley/sb-kids/famous.html

http://www.casafuturatech.com/Book/Practice/famous.html

http://childdevelopmentinfo.com/disorders/famous.shtml

http://www.vaporia.com/autism/autismfaq-well.html

http://www.floridaepilepsy.org/famous.htm

http://www.disabilityhistory.org/people.html

http://www.chamber4us.org/hall_of_fame.html

http://deafness.miningco.com/health/disabilities/deafness/msubcel.htm

http://www.iainmacn.mcmail.com/epilepsy/famous.htm

http://www.oneaddplace.com/famous.htm

http://www.milwaukeechapter.org/laura.htm>

Films / Movies Involving Disabilities
  http://www.caravan.demon.co.uk/

People with Marfan Syndrome
 http://www.widomaker.com/~jnavia/who.htm

Politicians with Disabilities
 http://www.ada-infonet.org/quizbook/politic.htm

Famous People with Disabilities
 http://www.disabilityresources.org/FAMOUS.html


Famous People with Disabilities
 http://www.isdd.indiana.edu/~cedir/kidsweb/fpwdinfo.html
http://www.ability.org.uk/Famous%20People%20with%20Disabilities.html

Famous People with Learning Disabilities
 http://beach.huensd.k12.ca.us/pages/hbsldfamous.html
Famous People with the Gift of Dyslexia
 http://www.dyslexia.com/qafame.htm

Questions & Answers about the Positive Side of Dyslexia
 http://www.dyslexia.com/qagift.htm

Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities
 http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/gt_ld/jld_gtld.html

http://borntoexplore.org/famous.htm

www.bda-dyslexia.org.uk/
 British Dyslexia Association

http://www.surrealtech.com/addvantages/ld16.html


 Books

Author Patrica Polacco is a great one I used last year.  She is dyslexic
and disgraphic.  Read the book Thank You Mr. Falker.

Dyslexia by Elaine Landau, 1991
Succeeding with LD: 20 true stories about real people with LD

Chuck Close, Up Close by Jan Greenberg and published by DK INK.  He is an
artist who struggled "...to overcome severe learning difficulties as a child
and immense physical challenges later in life.


Lists

Thomas Edison-hearing impaired/learning disbaled
Julius Caesar-epileptic
Beethoven- deaf and "madness" from lead poisoning
Cher-dyslexic
Ray Charles - visually impaired
Winston Churchill- learnning diabled
Louis Braille - visually impaired
Helen Keller- visually and hearing impaired
Toulose Latrec- physically disabled
Nelson Rockerfeller - learning disabled
Marlee Martin- hearing impaired
Charles Steimetz- physically diabled
Juliette Lowe- hearing impaired
George Patton- learning disabled
Bruce Jenner- Learning disabled
Harriet Tubman- physically disabled
August Rodin- learning disabled
Milton- visually disabled
Harvey Cushing- learning disbaled
Susan Hampshire- learning disbaled
Goya- hearing impaired
Christy Brown- Cebebral Palsy

Other
A former collegue taught at the Lab School in Washington, DC.  Their fund
raiser each year was to invite celebrities with LD.  The phone number is
202-
965-6600

Avi, the young adult author, has dysgraphia, according to Lives and Works
(Grolier). It made his writing very difficult to read in school. He overcame
it to become a prolific writer.

The acclaimed Virginia artist, P. Buckley Moss, is dyslexic and devotes a
great deal of effort and money to raise awareness of special needs.  She has
written an autobiography, I think, and I know has dedicated one of her
prints to raising awareness, based on her own childhood difficulties.
Her website is at:
http://www.pbuckleymoss.com/

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