Musicians with Disabilities

How would YOU cope?

Dyslexia• Symptoms may include:

– a noticeable difference between the pupil's ability and their actual achievement;

– difficulties with spelling; – confusion over left and right; – writing letters or numbers backwards; – difficulties with organizing themselves; – difficulty following 2- or 3-step instructions.

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Famous Musicians with Dyslexia

Harry BelafonteCherJohn LennonMozartJewelTony Bennett

Vision Impaired/Blind

• Legal blindness is defined as visual acuity (vision) of 20/200 (6/60) or less in the better eye with best correction possible. This means that a legally blind individual would have to stand 20 feet (6.1 m) from an object to see it—with corrective lenses—with the same degree of clarity as a normally sighted person could from 200 feet (61 m).

• Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as NLP, an abbreviation for "no light perception."[

Famous Blind/Visually Impaired Musicians

• Ray Charles• “Blind” Lemon Jefferson• Sandy Duncan• Jose Feliciano• Ronnie Milsap• Alan Jay Lerner• Stevie Wonder

Deaf/Hearing Impaired

• Hearing impairment or deafness refers to conditions in which individuals are fully or partially unable to detect or perceive at least some frequencies of sound which can typically be heard by members of their species. Use of the term impaired implies that deafness presents an inherent disadvantage to an animal, a view that is rejected within the Deaf culture movement, where the terms Deaf and hard of hearing are preferred.

Famous Musicians with Hearing Impairments

• Beethoven• Paul Stanley• Evelyn Glennie• Nanette Fabray

Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. These seizures are signs of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain.

Epilepsy is usually controlled, but cannot be cured with medication.

Famous Musicians with Epilepsy

• Peter Tchaikovsky• Neil Young• Hector Berlioz• George Frederick Handel• Elton John

Bipolar Disorder

• Bipolar disorder or manic–depressive disorder (also referred to as bipolar affective disorder or manic depression) is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood. These moods are clinically referred to as mania or, if milder, hypomania. Individuals who experience manic episodes also commonly experience depressive episodes or symptoms, or mixed episodes in which features of both mania and depression are present at the same time.

Famous Musicians with Bipolar Disorder

• Beethoven• Brian Wilson• Ray Davies• Charley Pride

Autism

• Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their synapses connect and organize; how this occurs is not well understood. The two other autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are Asperger syndrome, which lacks delays in cognitive development and language, and PDD-NOS, diagnosed when full criteria for the other two disorders are not met.

Famous People with Autism

• Temple Grandin• Gary Numan• Matt Savage• Leslie Lemke Autistic individuals tend to use

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Physical Disabilities• Cerebral Palsy- an umbrella term encompassing a group of non-

progressive, non-contagious motor conditions that cause physical disability in human development, chiefly in the various areas of body movement.

• Muscular Dystrophy- refers to a group of hereditary muscle diseases that weaken the muscles that move the human body. Muscular dystrophies are characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins, and the death of muscle cells and tissue.

• Cystic Fibrosis- a common hereditary disease which affects the entire body, causing progressive disability and often early death. Difficulty breathing is the most serious symptom and results from frequent lung infections that are treated, though not cured, by antibiotics and other medications.

• Amputations

Famous Musicians with Physical Disabilities

• Rick Allen- Arm Amputation• “Lead Belly”- Lou Gehrig’s Disease

Learning DisabilitiesDyscalculia Difficulty with math Problems doing math problems,

understanding time, using money

Dysgraphia Difficulty with writing Problems with handwriting, spelling, organizing ideas

Dyspraxia (Sensory Integration Disorder)

Difficulty with fine motor skills Problems with hand–eye coordination, balance, manual dexterity

Auditory Processing Disorder

Difficulty hearing differences between sounds

Problems with reading, comprehension, language

Visual Processing Disorder

Difficulty interpreting visual information

Problems with reading, math, maps, charts, symbols, pictures

Famous Musicians with Learning Disabilities

• Harry Belafonte• Tom Smothers• John Lennon

Famous Musicians with Speech Impairments

• Carly Simon• Mel Tillis• Robert Merrill

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