![Dyslexic Visionary Architect Lord Richard Rogers [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2019-09-14-at-11.49.02-AM.jpg)
“Richard Rogers’ late entry into the 4th Year was not successful. He has a genuine interest in and a feeling for architecture but surely lacks the intellectual equipment to translate these feelings into sound building. His designs will continue to suffer while his drawing is so bad, his method of work so chaotic and his […]
![Discoverer of the Titanic – Dyslexic Ocean Explorer Robert Ballard [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2019-09-17-at-9.10.00-AM.jpg)
“When I was a child, I wrote a letter to an oceanographic institution in California called Scripps (Scripps Institution of Oceanography UC San Diego). It was a Dear Santa Claus letter. “Dear Scripps, I want to be an oceanographer.” I’m sure I misspelled it, because I’m dyslexic. They gave me a scholarship.” – Robert Ballard When I was seventeen, […]
![Shakespeare and Dyslexia – Making Words Physical [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/shakepeare-pixabay.jpg)
Today is National Shakespeare Day, and dyslexia and Shakespeare have been on our minds. We recently mentioned that Lloyd Everitt (yes, he’s dyslexic) is the youngest actor to play Othello at Shakespeare’s own Globe Theater. But we’ve also been thinking about Shakespeare recently because, on our trip down to California, we had the pleasure of […]
![Higher Creativity of Dyslexic Children and Adolescents – New Research [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/creativity-dyslexia-our-shutterstock.jpg)
“…dyslexic children around the age of 10 years old were found to be particularly creative in our study…” – Kapoula et al. University Paris PLOS One 2016: 11(3). From creativity researchers in Europe, some striking new information about how well dyslexic students and adolescents performed on the Torrance Test of Creativity Thinking compared to non-dyslexic […]
"Dyslexic people process visual information differently than most people, so instead of starting with letters or sounds, I looked at sentences or even paragraphs as a whole, and then broke them down into parts. That process – starting with the big picture and breaking...
![Why Are So Many Dyslexic Student Good at Science? [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/shutterstock_147597254.jpg)
Nobel Prize winners, MacArthur Geniuses, Engineers of the Century, SiliconValley pioneers, and more. Why are so many dyslexic people exceptional at science and tech? Here are 5 Reasons (there are many more…):
Superstar MIT Professor Catherine Drennan (HHMI Scientist too - the top of the top in the world) shared her personal journey with dyslexia. She was in remedial classes and had to repeat a grade, and saw her self dropped lower and lower through all the reading groups,...
