• Teresa Howarth is dyslexic and was concerned about finding work after being made redundant by Remploy.

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  • The pirate captain Black Stache (Christian Borle), a dyslexic prince of darkness, expertly fits the bill.

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  • But I needed the most attention of the three of us because I was dyslexic.

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  • Mildly dyslexic since childhood, he memorizes almost everything, so he need only read things once.

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  • Dr Gabrieli and his team studied ten dyslexic adults and ten non-dyslexics (who acted as controls).

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  • The ordeal is mitigated by the fact that my dyslexic son appears to have freed himself of much of this struggle.

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  • But the poorest readers, many of whom had been formally diagnosed as dyslexic, could rarely distinguish the order of the tones.

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  • They found that, compared with non-dyslexic controls, their subjects showed low activity in a part of the brain called Brodmann's Area 37.

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  • Mawle - who is partially deaf and dyslexic - explains that he did not read Lawrence's novels as he finds reading "quite strenuous".

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • "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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • "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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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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