by Fernette Eide | | Accommodations, Being Dyslexic, Careers, dyslexia, Dyslexic Advantages, Famous People with Dyslexia, Neurodiversity, Science, Stealth Dyslexia
Answer: Yes. Absolutely. There have been many famous physicians who were dyslexic, and many today that you might not know who are dyslexic because many don’t identify in the workplace and many more weren’t formally identified. The typical profile of a... ![Individual Differences: How Do You Remember ? [Premium]](https://old.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/memorize-our-shutterstock.jpg)
by Fernette Eide | | Being Dyslexic, Memory, Premium, Premium Content, Science
How do you remember what happened? As depersonalized facts and happenings? Or detailed sensory scenes and experiences? In one of the clearest demonstrations studies so far, researchers showed striking differences between how different people told them how they... ![Dyslexic Innovation: GOOGLE (X) CAPTAIN Astro Teller [Premium]](https://old.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/900px-Astro_Teller_candid.jpg)
by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | Being Dyslexic, dyslexia, Famous People with Dyslexia, Premium, Premium Content, Professionals, Science, Technology
Many of the world’s greatest innovators are dyslexic. These creators with a capital ‘C’, more often than not, arrive at their conclusions through wild leaps of their ideas rather than incremental, step-by-step invention. This pattern, which appears... 
by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | Being Dyslexic, dyslexia, Famous People with Dyslexia, Professionals, Science
Dr. Carol Greider was folding laundry at home when she got the call in 2009 that she had won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. She decided to wake up her kids and tell them. “Do we have to go to school?”. “No you don’t,” she said, and she took... 
by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | Being Dyslexic, dyslexia, Famous People with Dyslexia, MIND strengths, Science
“During my youth, I was quite asocial. I had a lot of difficulty with the world. Every ten years, I found, it got a little better. Now things are going quite well.” – Jacques Dubochet There’s no better reminder that awareness needs to include... ![Bridging the Gap to Reading Long Words [Premium]](https://old.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-9.52.37-AM.jpg)
by Fernette Eide | | dyslexia, Fluency, Language Arts, Premium, Premium Content, Reading, Science, Strategies, Teachers
In our last post, we wrote about the 3rd grade gap or wall. Dyslexic students typically get through the hard slog of phonemic awareness and then parents and teachers breathe a sigh of relief. Many times, the extra work fades away and students are integrated back into...
