Feb 27, 2015 | DM News Blog
Chuck Close is an artist famed for his massive, photo-like portraits of faces. He has dyslexia, and even more interesting given his career, also has a form of face-blindness which makes it difficult for him to recognize people. He struggled with all areas of school...
Feb 20, 2015 | DM News Blog
Charlie Burgin is an electronica music creator from California who goes by the cryptic name Sahy Uhns. Nobody can pronounce it… and Burgin gets a kick out of that because he is dyslexic. “I’m severely dyslexic,” Burgin confesses…So one of his goals in...
Feb 6, 2015 | DM News Blog
This is a first for our Famous Dyslexics series on the Easyread blog… we are featuring a champion fencer! Molly Sliney fenced for the US Olympic Team in two Olympic games, and won gold at the 1987 and 1991 Pan American Games. Molly Sliney struggled to read from...
Jan 30, 2015 | DM News Blog
Actor, singer, and activist Harry Belafonte has become an advocate for children with reading difficulties in recent years. Belafonte was born in New York in the late 1920s. He spend part of his early childhood in Jamaica before returning to the US in his teenage...
Jan 23, 2015 | DM News Blog
Because the term ‘dyslexia‘ didn’t surface until the late 1800s – and even then didn’t catch hold until recent decades – it is possible that a huge number of iconic figures from our past struggled with it unknowingly. One article...
