Re: SEC: Alexander Graham Bell and dyslexia

[S Brisco <sbrisco021@CHARTER.NET>]

I knew that Alexander Graham Bell worked with the deaf (his wife was deaf
and he also worked with Helen Keller in recommending Anne Sullivan to her
father as a teacher); however, if he had any connections to dyslexia it
might be only because of the speech aspect (helping the deaf to speak).  I
have not seen anything about him being dyslexic and I wonder if this is true
because of his writings and illustrations with descriptions.

Here is a link (you may already have it) that has lots of information:
http://educate.si.edu/spotlight/inventors1.html

Shonda Brisco
Trinity Valley School
Ft. Worth, Texas
sbrisco021@charter.net

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Subject: SEC: Alexander Graham Bell and dyslexia


> One of our summer school students is profiling Alexander Graham Bell.
> According to a list published by ERIC, he was dyslexic.  However, we have
> looked through countless articles in books and on the web - with nothing
> really mentioned about his dyslexia or what his problems may have been to
> indicate this diagnosis. (Edison, in contrast, had big problems in Math
> and his mother took him out of school.)  Does anyone have a resource they
> could recommend?  This student is working hard at the project and I'd
> really like to help him.
>
> TIA.
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