After reading three previous parts about Learning Difficulties or Learning Differences, there might come a question, "Will people with LD success in their future?"
As what we agreed in previous chapter, we conclude that children with Learning Difficulties are not dumb. They are smart children. Below six success people with Learning Difficulties who did not give up in struggling their difficulties;
- Nelson Rockefeller; He was a Vice President of United States and governor of New York. He had a severe reading problem.
Nelson Rockefeller; Vice President of US - Tom Cruise; this handsome actor has a reading disability
Tom Cruise; succeed actor - Ann Bancroft; She is an arctic explorer and she was the first woman who reach the North Pole; she has reading problem.
Ann Bancroft; the first woman who reach the North Pole - Woodrow Wilson; He was a President of United States. He did not learn to read until he was 11 years old.
Woodrow Wilson; President of US - Erin Brockovich; She is a legal assistant who struggled hard for a case against a company that was polluting the groundwater in California. She has dyslexia.
Erin Brockovich; legal assistant - Whoopi Goldberg; everybody know Whoopi Goldberg, but not everybody knows that she has reading problems in school. This is interesting thing, we can see that she had problem in reading, but in her future, she is succeed actress and comic. And as we know, as an actress she must read lots of scenario, if we compare with her difficulty problem, it seems impossible.
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| Whoopi Goldberg; succeed actress and comic |
Based on success stories of the famous people, we should not worry if we are children with Learning Difficulties, or we have children with LD, because they have bright future like another normal children. They keys here are "Support and Motivation to struggle"
References;
Garry Fisher, Ph.D and Rhoda Cummings, Ed. D, 2002, The Survival Guide for Kids with Learning Differences, Minneapolis.
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