Showing posts with label Learning Disabilities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Learning Disabilities. Show all posts

Thursday, 9 February 2012

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.