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CHAPTER 17
■ APPENDIX
Famous People
with Disabilities
AThleTeS
O.J. Simpson (football) Learning disability
Jim Abbott (baseball) Physical disability (hand
amputation)
Kenny Walker (football)
Muhammad Ali (boxing)
Cancer
Larry Brown (football) Hearing impairment
Harold Connelly (track and field)
disability (left arm)
Physical
Tom Dempsey (football) Physical disability
(congenital foot deformity)
Jim Eisenreich (baseball)
Tourette syndrome
Sean Elliot (basketball)
Kidney disease
Pete Gray (baseball) Physical disability (had one
arm)
Nancy Hogshead (swimming)
Catfish Hunter (baseball)
lateral sclerosis
Asthma
Diabetes, amyotrophic
Bruce Jenner (track and field)
Magic Johnson (basketball)
Learning disability
Walter Payton (football)
PolITIcIAnS
Winston Churchill
Robert Dole
Asthma
Epilepsy
Asthma, HIV
Kidney disease
Wilma Rudolph (track and field) Physical
disability (birth defects and polio)
Ron Santo (baseball) Diabetes, physical disability
(leg amputation)
Learning disability
Physical disability (right arm)
John F. Kennedy Physical disability (back injury),
Addison disease
Abraham Lincoln Depression, Marfan syndrome
(a connective tissue disorder)
George Patton
Learning disability
Ronald Reagan
Alzheimer disease
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Physical disability
Learning disability
AcTorS
Chris Burke
HIV
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (track and field)
Greg Louganis (diving)
Kristi Yamaguchi (figure skating) Asthma
Brain injury
Lance Armstrong (cycling)
Tony Lazzeri (baseball)
Deafness
Down syndrome
Cher Dyslexia (Cher uses a reading coach to learn
television, movie, and commercial scripts.)
Tom Cruise Dyslexia (Cruise uses a reading
coach to learn scripts.)
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Visual impairment
Walt Disney Learning disability (Disney did
not learn how to read until he was 9. He drew
pictures to help him remember what he was
learning.)
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Michael J. Fox
Parkinson disease
Annette Funicello
Parkinson’s disease
MuSIcIAnS
Beethoven
Deafness
Danny Glover Learning disability (Glover was
placed in a class for students with intellectual
disabilities until he was in high school, and he
did not learn how to read or write until after he
graduated from school.)
Ray Charles
Whoopi Goldberg Dyslexia (Goldberg uses a reading coach to help her learn scripts.)
Itzhak Perlman
James Earl Jones Communication disability
(stuttering) (Jones did not speak in school
because he was so embarrassed. He learned to
speak without stuttering by reading poetry.
Poetry has a rhythm to it, and people who
stutter often can sing or read poetry.)
Blindness
Jacqueline du Pré
John Lennon
Learning disability
Freddie Mercury
Stevie Wonder
Multiple sclerosis
AIDS
Physical disability
Blindness
oTher FAMouS PeoPle
Hans Christian Andersen (writer) Learning
disability
Agatha Christie (writer) Learning disability
Marlee Matlin
Deafness
Thomas Edison (inventor) Deafness
Richard Pryor
Multiple sclerosis
Albert Einstein (physicist and Nobel
laureate) Learning disability
Christopher Reeve
Quadriplegia
Stephen Hawking (physicist and writer) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Helen Keller (writer)
Deafness and blindness
Darci Kistler (ballerina)
Diabetes
Sources: Appenzeller (1983); Getskow and Konezal
(1996); Zygmunt, Larson, and Tilson (1994)
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