Resources

Articles

 
The Upside of Dyslexia
Annie Murphy Paul, The New York Times, February 4, 2012
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The D Word: Sundance Film Review
Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, January 26, 2012
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Words Failed Me, Then Saved Me
Philip Schultz, The New York Times, Septembert 3, 2011
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The Girl Who Played With an Imaginary Rope
Shira Hirschman Weiss, The Huffington Post, August 26, 2011
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Study Sheds Light on Auditory Role in Dyslexia
Pam Belluck, The New York Times, August 1, 2011
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11 Celebrities with Dyslexia Who Made it Big
Jordan K. Turgeon, The Huffington Post, July 14, 2011
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How Patience, Attention Saved a Struggling Learner
Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post, May 24, 2011
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Diagnosing Discalculia
Dr. Al Silbert, drlindasblog.com, December 14, 2010
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What is Normal?
Peter d. Kramer, M.D., Psychology Today, November/December 2009
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Jets’ Rex Ryan Acknowledges Toughest Foe: Dyslexia
Dennis Waszak Jr., AP, June 23, 2009
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For the Love of Sales
Kim Wright Wiley, Selling Power, October 2008
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Overcoming Dyslexia
Betsy Morris, Fortune Magazine, May 13, 2002
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The Entrepreneurial Mind Set
John Buchanan, Growing Wealth Magazine, June 1, 2008
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Mel Levine: Teaching Minds of All Kinds
Margot Adler, npr, Jan 24, 2005
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How a School in Florida Got Mainstreaming Right
Robert Tomsho, The Wall Street Journal,  Dec 31, 2007
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Tracing Business Acumen to Dyslexia
Brent Bowers, The New York Times,  Dec 6, 2007
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On the Job, Learning Disabilities Can Often Hide in Plain Sight
Eilene Zimmerman, The New York Times - Job Market - Dec 17, 2006
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The Hidden Disability:  Employees with Learning Disabilities Can Find Success in the Workplace with Simple Accommodations
Paula Ketter, T&D Magazine, June 2006
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LD Insights

 
LD Dyslexia Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
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Donna Flagg on Cognitive Diversity
As learning disability diagnoses become more and more common, businesses are faced with the need to integrate all types of thinkers into the workplace. Here, Donna Flagg discusses Cognitive Diversity and the importance of taking a horizontal approach to differences in how people learn and process information.
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Brain Waves of the Future
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PowerPointers: How to Make Presentations Reader-Friendly, Effective and Efficient
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Brain Matters: Born or Made?
Maximizing Potential, Retaining Employees, Engaging a Workforce
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Did You Know?
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Workers Struggle in Silence: Behind the Eyes of Learning Disabilities in the Workplace
Donna Flagg, Hire Disability Solutions: Newsletter, April 2007
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Diversity, Learning, and Productivity All-In-One
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Press Release:  Needs of Learning Disabled Ignored in Workplace Training
March 2007
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Letters

 
LD NYC Department of Education
A letter thanking Donna for being the Career Keynote Speaker at the College and Career Fair for Students with Disabilities.
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Disability Works
A letter of appreciation for Krysalis's involvement in the Chicagoland Business Leadership Network Chamber of Commerce.
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Online Resources

 
 

Landmark College

The college of choice for students with learning disabilities and/or AD/HD.

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Dyslexia Victoria Online

Rants & Raves from the Right Side

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Vocal Dyslexia

Dennis Blair, Comedian

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WikiHow

How to Understand Dyslexia

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  Economist.com
Homo Mobilis: As Language Goes, So Does Thought
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Nomads at Last
"Wireless communication is changing the way people work, live, love and relate to places—and each other," says Andreas Kluth.
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  The Science of the Reading Brain
Professor of child development Maryanne Wolf explains how the human brain learns to read – and why some people have a very difficult time learning how to read, as in the case of dyslexics. Her recent book is Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.
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  Hire Disability Solutions
Hire Disability Solutions empowers companies to promote inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace, while providing workers who have disabilities with opportunities to succeed.
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  disabilityworks
disabilityworks, an exciting initiative from the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and the City of Chicago, is designed to connect employers to a qualified workforce of people with disabilities and break down the barriers that keep people with disabilities from finding work in Illinois.
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  National Institute for Literacy
Workplace Literacy Skills: Making Reading Work for Work
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  Career Trainer
Successful Careers: The Secrets of Adults with Dyslexia
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