Back to Red Disability home page Tue, 15 May 2001
Dont believe all you read in popular articles. Einstein was certainly not dislexic - that myth came from a comment made by a houshold maid. Einstein recieved nothing less than top marks at high school and was a masterly musician at 12.
Bell, like has father, was a teacher of deaf students and experimented with devices to use as aids to people who were deaf. He was also responsible for bringing recognition to a little girl named Hellen Kellor.
As for ancients like da Vinci,who knows - most people in his day had disabilities.
It is important not to overstate!
Rex Newsome,
Brisbane
More about Rex Newsome can be found here
There is, to this day, some controversy about whether or not Einstein was dyslexic - an article on Dyslexia in Wikipedia lists the arguments for and against the assertation that Einstein may have been dyslexic.
Following email was sent by a middle school teacher on 12/4/2005:
Hello, This is such a fantastic site and we would like to use it for a middle school class that is feeling that they will never achieve anything. However, we were wondering if you might consider changing the photo of Quentin Tarantino that you have posted as it is not appropriate to show young people. If you could possibly do that we would be so thankful because the site is awesome and we'd love to share it!!
He/she did have a point - the offending image has now been changed to a less violent one.