Dyslexic Author Offers a Different Outlook for Kids Who Don't Fit In

Jonathan Mooney was labeled dyslexic in fourth grade and diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder the following year. He dropped out of school for a year in sixth grade and began plotting his suicide. He didn't learn to read until he was 12. And yet, Mooney graduated in 2000 from Brown University with a degree in English literature. He was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist and founded a nonprofit organization to help students with learning disabilities. How did he do it?

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