Whoopi Goldberg’s Dyslexia: How It Became Her Advantage
Whoopi Goldberg left school early and was diagnosed with dyslexia as an adult. Here is how memory and imagination carried her.
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Tommy Hilfiger’s Dyslexia: How It Became His Advantage
Tommy Hilfiger thought he was one of the dumb kids at school. He was dyslexic. Here is how it pushed him into fashion.
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Salma Hayek reads scripts slowly because of dyslexia, but she only reads them once. Here is how she made that work in Hollywood.
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Keira Knightley was diagnosed with dyslexia at six. A deal with her parents turned learning to read into an acting career.
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Henry Winkler played the Fonz while struggling to read his scripts aloud. He found out he was dyslexic at 31.
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Steven Spielberg was diagnosed with dyslexia around age 60. Here is how a slow reader became one of film’s great storytellers.
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Richard Branson left school at 16 with dyslexia and built Virgin. Here is his school story and the strengths he links to it.
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Orlando Bloom was diagnosed with dyslexia at seven. He calls it a gift, and credits it for how hard he prepares.
Read the storyMuhammad Ali and Dyslexia: Hard to Read, Born to Talk
Muhammad Ali barely got through school and struggled with reading all his life. His voice, his rhymes and his nerve did the rest.
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