Leonardo Da Vinci was also believed to suffer from a number of learning disabilities including dyslexia and attention deficit

disorder. Strong evidence in Da Vincis manuscripts and letters corroborates the diagnosis of dyslexia. It appears that Leonardo wrote his notes backwards, from right to left, in a mirror image. This is a trait shared by many left-handed dyslexic people. In addition to the handwriting, the spelling errors in his manuscripts and journals demonstrated dyslexia-

Pablo Picasso was a famous, controversial, and trend-setting art icon. He is described as having difficulty reading the orientation of the letters and labeled a dyslexic, and despite the initial difficulties was able to catch up with the curriculum. However, dyslexia made school difficult and he never really benefited from his education.

His teachers said that he was mentally slow, unsociable and adrift in his foolish dreams. He could not talk until the age of four. He did not learn to read until he was nine. His teachers considered him slow, unsociable and a dreamer. He failed the entrance examinations to college but finally passed the after an additional year of preparation. He lost three teaching positions and then became a paten clerk. Even as an adult Einstein found that searching for words was laborious. He found school work, especially math,

Helen Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. In February 1882, when Helen was nineteen months old, she fell ill. Helens illness left her both blind and deaf. She made up signs with her hands so she could "talk" to her family. She had 60 different signs.

He was bright and intelligent and bursting with energy, he was unable to read and write. His wife corrected his spelling, his punctuation and his grammar. George Patton was one of America's most successful army generals of World War Two. Patton's Third Army cut a bloody swath through German forces during the Liberation of France and the Ardennes Campaign, which is best known for the Battle of the Bulge. When he was twelve years old, he could not read yet and he remained deficient in reading all his life. However, he could memorize entire lectures, which was how he got through school.

A teacher sent the following note home with a six-Year old boy: He is too stupid to learn. That boy was Thomas Edison. Surprisingly, little "Al" Edison, did not learn to talk until he was almost four years of age. Thomas Edison was a brilliant scientist and inventor of the Bulbs, Motion Pictures and photographs and lots more. He was thrown out of school when he was 12 because he was thought to be dumb. He was noted to be terrible at mathematics, unable to focus, and had difficulty with words and speech.

He was regularly punished in school for failure or lack of effort, sometimes failing the same class numerous times. Winston Churchill served as Britains Prime Minister known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War (WWII).

He was the inventor of Braille, a system for blind or visually impaired people to be able to read and write. Louis Braille became blind at the age of three, when he accidentally poked himself in the eye with a stitching awl, one of his father's workshop tools. The injury wasn't thought to be serious until it got infected. Braille's other eye went blind because of sympathetic ophthalmia.

Id try to concentrate on what I was reading, then Id get to the end of the page and have very little memory of anything Id read. An actor whose name has become synonymous with all-American testosterone-driven entertainment, Tom Cruise spent the 1980s as one of Hollywood's brightest-shining golden boys. Despite being a success in his chosen field, this entertainer can learn lines only by listening to a tape.

Stephen William Hawking is a British theoretical physicist and Mathematician, whose world-renowned scientific career spans over 40 years. Stephen Hawking is severely disabled by motor neuron disease. Symptoms of the disorder first appeared while he was enrolled at Cambridge; he lost his balance and fell down a flight of stairs, hitting his head, when Hawking was 21. Hawking gradually lost the use of his arms, legs, and voice, and as of 2009 was almost completely paralyzed.

I couldnt read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Charles Schwab, founder, chairman and CEO of Charles Schwab Corporation, which has helped millions of average Joes manage their money through investments and other banking and financial services. He had extreme difficulty taking notes in class, flunking English two times, and struggling in foreign language classes, Schwab did not have a name for his disability until his son was

As a kid I had a hard time reading in school. I was the kid who would go one period a day to the class for kids with learning disabilities. Comedian actor Vince Vaughn credits his learning disabilities with making him a film star - because they forced him to work harder than his peers. The Dodge ball star suffered chronic dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. Some of the movies Vaughn appeared in are: The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Starsky & Hutch

As a child I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. Henry Winkler having struggled - and suffered - throughout his school years with unidentified dyslexia. He never attended special-education class. His German-Jewish immigrant parents didn't understand his learning problem. Their nickname for him was the German expression for "dumb dog.. Henry Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days. In addition to his movie and film credits, Henry is a well accomplished author of the series called Hank Zipzer, the World's Greatest Underachiever.

Jay Leno got mainly CS and DS in school. His high school guidance counselor recommended that he drop out of school. When enrolling into Emerson College in Boston the admission officer said he wasnt what they wanted. He sat outside the admission officers office 12 hours a day 5 days a week until he was accepted into the University. Jay Leno is most well known for his late night television comedy show.

Whoopi Goldberg, is an outstanding American entertainer, having acted in major motion picture hits like Ghost, Sister Act I and II and Star Trek: Generations. Whoopi had a lot of difficulty in school, but it was not until she was an adult did she learn that she had dyslexia. When Whoopi was growing up, she remembers being called dumb and stupid because she had a lot of problems reading

16-year-old boy writing

We set out early with Intent to Run round the sd. Land but being taken in a Rain &it Increasing very fast obliged us to return. It clearning about one o'Clock & our time being too Precious to Loose we a second time ventured out & Worked hard till Night & then returned to pEnningtons we got our Suppoers & was Lighted in to a Room & I not being so good a Woodsman as the rest of my Company striped my slef very orderly & went in to the Bed as they call'd it when to my Surprize I found it to be northing but a Little Straw-matted together without Sheets or any thing else but only on Thread Bear blanket with double its Weight of Vermin such as Lice Feas & c. Had we not have been very Tired, Ia, sure we should not have slep'd much that night. I made a Promise not to Sleep so from that time forward chusing rather to sleep in the open Air before a fire as will Appear hereafter."
It is interesting to note that this is an example from the writing of the first president of the United States; George Washington who professionals believe was dyslexic.

 Beethoven: Composer: Was deaf when he composed his 9th symphony. Walt Disney: had a learning disability. Nelson Rockefeller: former Vice President: had a learning disability Franklin D. Roosevelt: Roosevelt had Polio, was governor of New York State then elected President of the United States for 4 terms. Robert M. Hensel: Disability Advocate, Poet & 2x World record holder was born with Spina- bifida

 as a child, world famous pianist and singer.

Stevie Wonder blinded

Sudha Chandran: This brave lady dances with a Jaipur foot. She has acted in a movie on classical dance called "Nache Mayuri" & today acts in a variety of TV serials. For everyone listed as "famous", there are thousands millions, even - of people with disabilities who are quite competent in the jobs we do. Our value as people is not limited to the economic wealth which we produce. Every human, whether disabled or not, is a unique and valuable individual. Parents, children, care takers, volunteers and amateurs (i.e. unpaid enthusiasts) are not paid for the work they do, but that certainly doesn't mean they are of no value to society!