LD Resources

. A Dyslexic Wonder This is about Jennifer Smith, a finalist in 2010 for an Ann and Allegra Ford Scholarship, and her story of growth and pain. Terribly and typically teased, she persevered through language training and to the growth of her self-confidence. She enters college in the fall, speaks to students about dyslexia, has [...]

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I’ve felt for years that teenagers and young adults with Asperger’s Syndrome or with High Functioning Autism really need help understanding and negotiating romantic and sexual relationships. Moving from Social Skills or even Social Thinking curriculums (there’s a difference) to dating, sex, love and adult relationships is no easy task when your primary difficulties are [...]

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Believe me, this article, “Dyslexia Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me” is not some fluffy, syrupy homage to “the gifts of dyslexia.” The author, an entrepreneur and business consultant, who also wrote a book about communicating in the workplace called, “Surviving Dreaded Conversations,” makes the case that schools must change their approach [...]

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My friend Richard Wanderman, the founder of this LD site, who’s also dyslexic, once told me you have to help remediate difficulties in kids, but also “keep them in the game.” In this article, from the London Evening Standard about the youngest chef to earn the acclaimed 3 Michelin stars, chef Marco Pierre White talks [...]

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Emma Jefferies, is an award winning researcher, designer, educator, writer and more recently, a filmmaker. She also has dyslexia. In a series of videos, she speaks about the challenges and processes she went through while earning her Ph.D (in Design). Watch this first of a few videos posted on the Innovation Investment Journal website. At [...]

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Danny Glover has been one of my favorite actors for a while. He speaks about his life experiences and dyslexia as well as how he overcame his feelings of inadequacy. I sometimes have mixed feelings about trotting out the celebrities who have dyslexia. I’m not at all implying that having dyslexia leads to great acting [...]

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I know Maryann Wolf is a top scientific researcher and writer about dyslexia. I never realized her own son is dyslexic. In this article, she writes a letter to parents explaining the differences in brain organization.

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I met this guy Gilles today on the Big Island of Hawaii. I bought some of his art work and we spoke a little while. He’s a quadriplegic whose face seemed to beam. Talk about resilience and working through barriers, wow. Stricken with CP, and without use of arms or legs, he paints with another [...]

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For those of you who don’t know, I’ve just become the owner of this longstanding website, and so I want to tell you a little about myself. I’ve been working with kids for over twenty five years.  I settle on that number (25) because it’s true and because it signals lots of experience.  More than [...]

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Daveland When the author was nine, his teacher thought he was “retarded” and sentenced him to a corner of the gym with a stout woman and a pile of flash-cards. Eventually this so-called retarded kid completed a doctorate, conducted research with an MIT consortium, and was hired to consult for an iconic American corporation. Oops! [...]

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Wonderful story, nicely produced by Jerry Bowen at CBS. The kicker is that Kramer is dyslexic and his struggle with that no doubt routed him into doing things with his hands. [via Jon Moss]

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John Irving If you listen to this issue of OnPoint, once you run the player and the entire show has loaded, if you want to skip to the part where Irving talks about his learning issues, drag the slider to 40 minutes where a caller asks him about this. In short, he says that the [...]

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