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Mike Juggins - Dyslexic Artist. - After eight years of successful work on the issue of dyslexia Mike is focusing on his painting. His web site is full of fabulous stuff: videos and drawings, as well as his newly completed collection of vibrant oil paintings – Visual Jazz.
"Painting is my high place. Spontaneity and serendipity are welcome guests. I channel gesture, colour and emotion in a free state of mind, often taking cues from the music I listen to."

'I cried with relief to hear that I was dyslexic' - Five years ago, Derry Ann Morgan was diagnosed with dyslexia. She was assessed and found to have all the signs - she had problems absorbing words when she read, problems with spelling and particular problems with maths. Derry Ann was 48.
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Art on Metal - When P.J. Campbell learned she had been nominated as one of Kentucky's top artists she thought it was a joke.
“I do my designs, draw them and hammer them,” she said. “I come from myself. I spontaneously draw. After so many years, I've given myself permission to do that.” The manual labor and the discomfort of the tools don't deter her, just as having undiagnosed dyslexia didn't deter her from completing her college degree.
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Dyslexia Disability Recognized - A UK chief inspector of police who was dyslexic and who was found by an employment tribunal to have been disadvantaged in comparison with his work colleagues in examinations for promotion, was disabled within the meaning of the UK Disability Discrimination Act 1995, a court has found.
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Logan Tackles Dyslexia - Scottish rugby legend Kenny Logan will tell an Edinburgh audience about his experience of dyslexia thanks to a breakthrough treatment for learning difficulties. The former Scotland international will be speaking about his frustrations at The Hilton Hotel, Edinburgh, UK.
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Talking to Chuck - Perhaps no one on the globe has come to symbolize the rise of the investor class in America in recent decades more than Charles Schwab. Creating wealth is what Mr. Schwab has come to regard as his "life's pursuit." Mr. Schwab's entrepreneurial success is all the more remarkable because he suffers from dyslexia.
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Keanu Reeves - Keanu Charles Reeves (born 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon) is is a Canadian citizen and an avid ice hockey player/fan who was his high school team's MVP. His first name literally means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian. Despite his luck in Hollywood, Reeves has had a troubled private life that includes battling dyslexia, two life-threatening motorcycle accidents, the loss of his friend River Phoenix to drugs, and the death of his former girlfriend, who was killed in a car accident.
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Another Hopkins Takes Another Villanous Turn in 'Fracture' - Anthony Hopkins, star of The Silence of the Lambs, revealed that he has many fond memories of childhood, but some memories are painful. He suffered from dyslexia, and there were taunts from children, and even some adults, who made the wrong assumption that he was stupid.
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I was a Rebel ... Now I'm a Role Model! - A dyslexic teenager has triumphed over her troubled past to end up a role model for vulnerable youngsters. Jennifer Still, 16, was excluded from school for severe behavioral problems and lost the desire to learn after a family bereavement.
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Ben Way - At 17, Way became one of Britain’s youngest self-made millionaires, and at 20 he was voted Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Now 26, he recalls a childhood blighted by dyslexia — and how his life miraculously changed the moment he got his hands on a computer. Mum was a special-needs teacher and around this time she realised I might be dyslexic. Like a lot of dyslexic kids, I fell at the first hurdle of the education system. Letters and numbers were a battleground.
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Prince Harry Talks About His Dyslexia - British royal Prince Harry struggled at school because he suffers from dyslexia. The 22-year-old heir made the confession to British TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson on holiday in the Caribbean. Harry confided his hurt at untrue rumors of his partying lifestyle, and demonstrated how difficult his life is under the watchful eye of the world's media.
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Speaker Succeeded Despite His Dyslexia - John Curley, motivational speaker and Emmy-award-winning host of Evening Magazine, will share his story about how the "dumbest kid in school got the coolest job in the world" at a lecture in the Sydney Laurence Theatre at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts.
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Dyslexic Tells of His Tortured Childhood - When Paul Caldera was a boy, he would sit down at the kitchen table every night after supper so his mother, an English teacher, could tutor him in reading. It was the worst experience of his life. The boy had dyslexia, although he wouldn't find that out for another 35 years, in part because his mother refused to accept that explanation for his tortured, error-filled reading.
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It may have taken six years, but for College of the Sequoias student Susan Leary, 46, it wasn't the amount of time it took to earn an associate of science degree in child development, it was about defining herself.

Leary has dyslexia. So while many of her classmates breezed through reading assignments and math problems, Leary struggled.

She struggled with letters, she struggled with numbers and she even struggled with note taking.

"If I look at a book, I can't pronounce the hard words," she said.

"I also can't write fast enough to take notes in class. I have to take a tape recorder."

With the help of computer equipment at the college's Disabled Resources Center and tutors, Leary was able to scan the pages of her textbooks and use a program that would read to her, her disabilities nearly doubling the average homework time.

Dyslexia and the Driving Test (UK).