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  2. Albert Einstein - Wikipedia

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    Einstein in 1882, age 3. Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, [17] in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire, on 14 March 1879. [18] His parents, secular Ashkenazi Jews, were Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer, and Pauline Koch.

  3. Talk:Albert Einstein/Archive 9 - Wikipedia

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    There are innumerable legends which suggest that Einstein was a poor student, a slow learner, or a sufferer of autism, dyslexia, and/or attention deficit disorder. According to the authoritative biography by Pais (page 36, among others), such legends are unfounded. An article in The Washington Post on April 24, 2001 further debunked these legends.

  4. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    [1] However identity-first language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations. [2] Language can influence individuals' perception of disabled people and disability. [3] Views vary with geography and culture, over time, and among individuals.

  5. History of dyslexia research - Wikipedia

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    Adolph Kussmaul. The concept of "word-blindness" (German: "wortblindheit"), as an isolated condition, was first developed by the German physician Adolph Kussmaul in 1877.[1] [2] Identified by Oswald Berkhan in 1881, [3] the term 'dyslexia' was later coined in 1887 by Rudolf Berlin, [4] an ophthalmologist practicing in Stuttgart, Germany. [5]

  6. Hyperlexia - Wikipedia

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    Type 2: Autistic children who demonstrate very early reading as a splinter skill. Type 3: Very early readers who are not on the autism spectrum, though they exhibit some "autistic-like" traits and behaviours which gradually fade as the child gets older. A different paper by Rebecca Williamson Brown, OD proposes only two types of hyperlexia. [11]

  7. Henry Winkler on growing up dyslexic in the ’50s: 'I ... - AOL

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    Winkler wishes he had known then that he had dyslexia, a language-based learning disability that can make reading, word recognition and writing difficult among other things. Henry Winkler (ABC via ...

  8. History of autism - Wikipedia

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    Eugen Bleuler created the concept of autism, using it to describe a type of behaviour. Eugen Bleuler was a Swiss psychiatrist who was the director of the Burghölzli mental hospital, which was associated with the University of Zurich. In April 1908 he gave a lecture explaining that dementia praecox was very different to other forms of dementia ...

  9. Myka Stauffer ‘rehomed’ her autistic son after three years. A ...

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    In 2020, successful family vloggers Myka and James Stauffer made a startling announcement that would end her influencer career. They were ‘rehoming’ their autistic son, Huxley, nearly three ...