Teresa Howarth is dyslexic and was concerned about finding work after being made redundant by Remploy.
The pirate captain Black Stache (Christian Borle), a dyslexic prince of darkness, expertly fits the bill.
But I needed the most attention of the three of us because I was dyslexic.
Mildly dyslexic since childhood, he memorizes almost everything, so he need only read things once.
Dr Gabrieli and his team studied ten dyslexic adults and ten non-dyslexics (who acted as controls).
The ordeal is mitigated by the fact that my dyslexic son appears to have freed himself of much of this struggle.
But the poorest readers, many of whom had been formally diagnosed as dyslexic, could rarely distinguish the order of the tones.
They found that, compared with non-dyslexic controls, their subjects showed low activity in a part of the brain called Brodmann's Area 37.
Mawle - who is partially deaf and dyslexic - explains that he did not read Lawrence's novels as he finds reading "quite strenuous".
Severely dyslexic, she worked hard to get through school and the SATs, but gained acceptance to Tufts after writing a passionate essay that explained her disorder.
Gardner's Maggot Moon is the story of a 15-year-old dyslexic boy living in a dystopian 1950s society whose rulers are intent on winning the space race.
"We used to joke that Larry is brilliant but time-dyslexic, " says Mark Porter, who worked at Oracle in the 1990s on video-on-demand technology that never debuted.
Christine Lesser, whose dyslexic son Jamie was aged 10 at the time, was approached by a concerned parent who told her about what was happening to her son.
But the NUT said candidates who needed several resits to pass the tests were dyslexic, had English as an additional language, or were less familiar with the on-line testing system.
Lessons From a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies, recently gave Starbucks a quote from his 2005 book from Workman Publishing to print on the coffee chain's cups.
Moreover, the language areas in the brain of a dyslexic often contain nerve cells that are abnormally arranged and unusually small although it is still unclear whether this is a cause or consequence of the disorder.
"There are very few times when adults are judged on being timed in reading, " unlike the standardized tests kids take in school, says Tyler Lucas, a New York-based orthopedic surgeon who realized he was dyslexic after his daughter was diagnosed with it.
Dyslexic like his dad, Craig struggled with school but showed early self-confidence. (He piloted the family yacht through the San Juan Islands when he was only 14.) In August 1969, when Craig was 19 and a sophomore at Stanford University, his father died of heart failure.
Julie Logan, of the Cass Business School in London, found in separate surveys in 2001 and 2007 that 20% of the British entrepreneurs and 35% of the American entrepreneurs she studied were dyslexic. (By contrast, only 1% of corporate managers are similarly afflicted.) Famous dyslexic businessmen include Richard Branson, Charles Schwab, Ted Turner, John Chambers and Henry Ford.
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