Celebrities with Learning Disabilities

If your child has been diagnosed with a learning disability, he or she may feel some doubts about their self-esteem. This may be due to the overwhelming (but incorrect) idea in our society that difficulties restrict a person's chance of success in the workplace. Of course, this is simply not true. There are plenty of famous people with learning disabilities who achieve great things have happened in their careers. Here are some examples thereof, may provide only encouragement and inspiration that your child needs to look optimistically to the future:
First Whoopi GoldbergTo explain their difficulties with reading to a perceptive teacher as an adult, no idea, Goldberg was dyslexic. It was then necessary in the situation, the strategies in place to make sense of written language is learned. Goldberg became an incredibly successful actress and comedian. It is one of the few people in the world won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy. Goldberg is also the only woman who once hosted the Academy Awards. His radio program Wake Up with Whoopi, premiered on the radio for Clear Channel in late July 1006th has planned several upcoming films for release, as Under My Skin and The Last Guy on Earth.


Second Tommy HilfigerRaised in New York during the 50 and 60 fought Hilfiger with school because of his dyslexia. When the reading was difficult for him, has developed an eye for what lines and appropriate forms of the body. Hilfiger fashion sense sharp and entrepreneurial dynamism helped him start his own label in 1982. Since then, his business has made to branches not only men and women's clothing, but furniture children's clothing, shoes, furniture and home fragrances and more personal. Hilfiger has continued to achieve success with a growing celebrity clientele, new store openings worldwide and companies with experience in the hundreds of millions of people.
Third Jamie OliverThis young, hip chef cold for a new generation of Food Network viewers. While dyslexia problematized reading Oliver as a student who made a point to every cookbook of the known Bay Area French restaurant Chez Panisse over. Learning disability Oliver has not stood in the way of his achievements, he was the host of several popular television cooking, such as The Naked Chef and Oliver Twist, and has written cookbooks, including seven dinners the sales success of Jamie. His most recent TV series Jamie's School Lunch Project documents his quest to find the menu of a British primary school to renew for the introduction of healthier cooking methods and the inclusion of organic foods.