education psychology

1.  MADE BY
 MISS SAIMA KHALIL

2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
-In the name of Allah the most
merciful the most gracious-

5. Napoleon’s
hypersensitivity to
touch and his
military
strategic genius are
two of the many
symptoms that have
led some modern
scholars to suggest
that he was a high-functioning
autistic.

6. Brockovich is a
former legal clerk
whose success in
building a case
against illegal
groundwater
contamination led
to a major
motion picture
starring Julia
Roberts.
Brockovich is
dyslexic.

7. Walt was fired
from the Kansas
City newspaper for
not being creative
enough and was
considered “slow”
as a child. He is now
considered one of
the best known
motion picture
producers in the
world, and holds
the record for the
most awards and
most nominations.

8. A billionaire
businessman,
Branson credits his
business
intuition and unique
perspectives to his
early struggles with
dyslexia, which
affects the way he
visualizes words.

9. Bell invented the
telephone, but
struggled with
traditional
schooling. It’s
believed that he
had some form of
learning
disability, possibly
dyslexia.

10. The NFL host and
former player was
diagnosed with
attention deficit
hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD).

11. Cruise is among the
most recognizable
actors in the world.
He
has dyslexia and
has spoken publicly
about his disability.

12. Cher is one of the
most iconic
performers, singers
and actresses in
the
world. She has a
form of dyslexia
that makes it
difficult to
remember numbers
or to perform basic
mathematics.

13. Einstein himself told
his biographer, Carl
Seelig, that “my
parents were worried
because I started to
talk comparatively
late, and they
consulted a doctor
because of it.”
– Einstein’s parents
once thought that he
was mentally
retarded due to his
odd habits and
difficulties in school.
If he were born today,
Einstein would
probably be diagnosed
with Asperger’s
Syndrome, a mild form
of autism.

14. He is a singer and
songwriter and still
alive today, is
suspected to have
Asperger’s
syndrome. He
probably felt alone
as a child

15. Christie was the
most famous
mystery novelist of
her time
and developed a
rich writing style
that has impacted
almost every
mystery
writer of the 20th
and 21st centuries.
Christie had
dysgraphia, a
learning
disability that
affected her ability
to understand
written words.

16. Edison is believed
to have had
dyslexia and
possibly ADHD. His
mother took him
out of school at an
early age, and
Edison was home-schooled.
He
developed a
voracious appetite
for reading and
made major
scientific
breakthroughs with
his unusual
methodology.

17. One of the
greatest American
authors of all time,
Fitzgerald was
expelled from
school at the age of
12 for an inability
to focus
and complete his
work. It’s likely
that he had ADHD
or a related
disorder.

18. Hrithik Roshan has
been dazzling the
fans with his killer
looks and
performance.
Hrithik has
a speech
disorder known
as stammering.
Hrithik used to
stammer since he
was a kid, as a
result of which he
became a shy and
introvert child.

19. Glover has starred in
the popular “Lethal
Weapon” franchise
and in dozens of
other films. He is a
dyslexic and
frequently discusses
his
challenges in
overcoming his
learning disorder.

20. Comedian, actor,
and game show
host Howie Mandel
who has attention
deficit
hyperactivity
disorder
(ADD/ADHD)
and obsessive
compulsive disorder
(OCD), publicly
revealed his
diagnoses to the
world on an impulse.

21. President Kennedy
may have had a
form of dyslexia,
but it
didn’t keep him
from pursuing a
successful
education. He
graduated from
Harvard and won
the presidency of
the United States
in 1961.

22. Benjamin Franklin
It’s likely that the
eccentric, brilliant
founding father
had a very mild
version of autism.

23. Abhishek Bachchan
was suffering from
dyslexia, a learning
disability, when he
was a child.

24. The star of “The
Great Escape,”
Steve McQueen
had a
language-based
learning disorder.

25. Made BY:
Shafaq Shahzad Qureshi
(3rd Year B.A Honors)