Famous People with Disabilities

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Famous People with Disabilities

• Mr. Williams
• Harbour Pointe Middle School

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Who is this person?

• His mother was a school teacher.
• Famous actor who is paid up to 30 million per
  film.
• Is known not only for his roles in films, but
  also as someone who donates to several charities.
• He suffers from severe dyslexia, a reading
  disorder which makes it very difficult to read.
• Because he has such a hard time reading, he has
  someone record his lines and then listens to the
  lines to memorize them.
• He is well known for his roles in The Last
  Samurai, Mission Impossible, and Top Gun.

Tom Cruise
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Other Famous People with Dyslexia
Whoopi Goldberg
Jewel
Danny Glover
Jay Leno
Tommy Hilfiger
Henry Winkler
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Who is this person?

• Began his career as a stand-up comedian.
• Got started in acting on the television show
  Mork and Mindy.
• Has not let his lifelong struggle with Attention
  Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) get in his
  way.
• Has been in several movies, including, Flubber,
  Patch Adams, and Good Will Hunting, for which
  he won an Academy Award for Actor in a Supporting
  Role.

Robin Williams
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Other famous people with ADHD
Alexander GrahamBell
Bill Cosby
Jim Carrey
John Lennon
Steven Spielberg
Michael Jordan
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Who is this person?

• Began his career in 1964 in the Stanley Kubrick
  movie Dr. Strangelove.
• Has won two Tony Awards for his acting.
• Began taking acting lessons to help control his
  stuttering.
• Is well known for his voice one of the most
  widely recognized voices in show business.
• Admits that he still needs to think before he
  speaks to avoid stuttering.

James Earl Jones
Better known as the voice of Darth Vader!
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Other Famous People with Speech Difficulties
Jimmy Stewart
BruceWillis
JuliaRoberts
SylvesterStallone
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Who is this person?

• He is one of the worlds leading cosmological
  scientists.
• He has 12 honorary degrees.
• He is considered by many to be the most brilliant
  scientist since Einstein.
• He is the best-selling author of the book, A
  Brief History of Time, published in 1988.
• He has ALS, also known as Lou Gehrigs Disease,
  which progressively weakens muscles.
• He has not been able to feed himself since 1974.

Stephen Hawking
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Other famous people withphysical disabilities.
Ray Charles
Both musicians,
both blind.
Stevie Wonder
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Marlee Matlin Oscar Winning Actress
Both Deaf!
Ludwig von Beethoven World Famous Composer
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Who is this person?

• Didnt speak until he was three.
• Didnt read until he was nine.
• His parents feared he was mentally retarded when
  he was a small child.
• He hated math in school, and dropped out in
  eighth grade.
• He is considered to be one of the most brilliant
  people to have ever lived.
• He developed the Theory of Relativity, and
  attempted to explain the relationship between
  time and space.
• Had an undiagnosed learning disorder, and many
  believe he may have even been autistic.

Albert Einstein
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• If you think you can do a thing or think you
  can't do a thing, you're right.

-Henry Ford