Sep 26, 2014 | DM News Blog
Lynda La Plante is an English crime writer best known for writing the Prime Suspect television series. Though she started her career as an actress, she discovered her flair for storytelling when she was 30, and her career took off. And she has dyslexia. Raised in...
Sep 19, 2014 | DM News Blog
Tim Conway is best known for his role in the show McHale’s Navy and as a regular contributor to The Carol Burnett Show. He is also a touring comedian who specialises in clean, family-friendly humour – a rarity in the comedy world! He’s recently...
Aug 26, 2014 | Uncategorised
Along with so many other gifted children, Charley Boorman struggled with literacy as a child. He gives a chat from the heart here about how hard it is living with dyslexia when nobody around you understands what you are going through:...
Aug 1, 2014 | DM News Blog
Michael Hart was the founder of Project Gutenberg, an online library of over 45,000 e-books that are out of copyright. You may think making books available to the public at the click of a mouse an interesting career choice for a man who was dyslexic! Hart was raised...
Jul 4, 2014 | DM News Blog
I vividly remember watching The Three Lives of Thomasina over and over when I was a child. I recently read an article about the lead actress, Susan Hampshire, and found out that she was so dyslexic as a child that her mother set up an independent school to teach her!...
