From USA Today:

Benjamin Bolger, who has dyslexia, just earned his first doctorate at Harvard to total eleven advanced degrees from universities including Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, Oxford, and Cambridge, among others.

Bolger says he reads at an elementary school level. He has gotten through much of his education with the help of his mother, Loretta Bolger, who reads books out loud to him and types papers he dictates. He also uses books on tape and has learned to skim books very effectively.

… He says he works to raise awareness about dyslexia and inspire others to realize they can be successful in academia.

From The Chicago Tribune

As a deaf student in Chicago schools thirty-five years ago, Karen Alkoby felt frustrated and stigmatized, but American Sign Language (ASL) gave her a voice. Officials at DePaul University now say she has become the first deaf woman in U.S. history to attain a doctorate in computer science. Alkoby’s dissertation lays the groundwork for a computerized dictionary that may be able to translate written English into ASL, opening new doors to communication for the deaf.

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