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This is a list of artistic depictions of dyslexia.

Books

Children's literature

Novels

  • Maggie in Jennifer Weiner's novel, In Her Shoes (2002) is dyslexic. The novel was adapted to film (In Her Shoes) in 2005.
  • Jackie Flowers, a detective and lawyer in a series of detective novels by mystery writer, Stephanie Kane, is dyslexic.[2]
  • Will Trent, who is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation detective in Karin Slaughter's novels, is dyslexic.
  • Bascule the Teller, a character from Iain M Banks' novel Feersum Endjinn, is dyslexic. Bascule's portion of the story is narrated in a semi-phonetic spelling that non-dyslexic readers may find difficult to parse, perhaps yielding insight into a dyslexic's world.
  • Stella Penn, character from Mark Peter Hughes' 'Lemonade Mouth'. Found out she has Dyslexia at the end of the book.
  • Wylan Van Eck, a character from the Six of Crows series by Leigh Bardugo, is dyslexic.

Comic books

Film

Children's films

  • 2007 Indian film, Taare Zameen Par, tells the story of Ishaan (Darsheel Safary) who struggles greatly in school until an art teacher (Aamir Khan) determines that he has dyslexia.
  • 2010 American film, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, a film about Greek mythology existing in the 21st Century, based on the series by Rick Riordan, the main character, Percy Jackson is dyslexic. To Demigods, it is a learning disability and an advantage to them at the same time. It jumbles up the words needed for their schoolwork but it also allows them to translate ancient Greek as their brains are hardwired for it. Percy's dyslexia is caused by his divine blood, which hardwires his brain to read only Ancient Greek.

General

Made-for-television films

Children's films

General

  • 1981 American television movie, The Princess and the Cabbie tells the story of a wealthy young woman, Joanna (Valerie Bertinelli), who is sheltered by her father until a cab driver realizes that she is dyslexic and tries to help her.
  • 1985 American television movie, Love, Mary is based on the true story of Mary (Kristy McNichol) who is determined to be dyslexic by a counselor in an institution and eventually becomes a doctor.
  • 1992 American television movie, The Secret tells the story of Mike (Kirk Douglas) who has hidden dyslexia his entire life until he realizes that his grandson Jesse faces the same difficulties.
  • 1999 American television movie, Anya's Bell: Scott (Mason Gamble)
  • 2020 British television movie, Small Axe: Education: Kingsley Smith (Kenyah Sandy)[7]

Television series

Children's shows

General

Шаблон:Note – Liam Butcher portrayed by: Sonny Bottomley (1998–1999), Jack & Tom Godolphin (1999–2000), Gavin & Mitchell Vaughan (2002), Nathaniel Gleed (2002–2004), James Forde (2008–2015), Alfie Deegan (2021)

Notes

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References

External links

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