Disability Support Services National Disability Awareness Month

Famous people with disabilities include:

• Beethoven – deafness
• Alexander Graham Bell-hearing impairment
• Julius Caesar-epilepsy
• Jessica Alba- obsessive compulsive disorder
• Roy Campanella-paraplegia
• Agatha Christie-learning Disability
• Thomas Edison-hearing impairment, learning disability
• Katharine Hepburn-Parkinson’s disease
• Helen Keller-blindness and deafness
• Mary Tyler Moore-diabetes
• Nelson Rockefeller-learning disability
• Ernest Hemingway-learning disability
• Wilma Rudolph-Polio
• Stevie Wonder-blindness
• Stephen Hopkins-Cerebral Palsy
• Winston Churchill-learning disability
• Justin Timberlake-obsessive compulsive disorder and attention deficit disorder