- Dyslexia is an unexpected difficulty in learning to read, despite good intelligence, strong motivation, and appropriate teaching.
- Children who are dyslexic can also be highly intelligent and have bright futures.
- Some of our most accomplished thinkers--students, writers, doctors, journalists, architects, educators, policy makers, inventors, entrepreneurs, entertainers are dyslexic.
- Slow readers can be
out-of-the box-thinkers.
- Dyslexia and creativity are related.
- Cutting-edge brain imaging demonstrates that dyslexic brains are wired differently, providing evidence for the need for accommodations.
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- Renowned heart surgeon and inventor Dr. Toby Cosgrove sees failure as the starting point for a process of learning and discovery.
- CEO and financial whiz Charles Schwab credits dyslexia for the kind of visionary thinking that led to his own business success.
- Novelist and Emmy Award-winning television writer Stephen J. Cannell is often asked how someone who is dyslexic would choose writing as a career. His response: "We dyslexics are very good with abstract thought. And that's the key in writing."
- Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein observed,
"In some ways being dyslexic is a gift, because you think less linearly. And you have to know it's okay to think out of the box."
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