Famous people with disabilities

• We are trying to prove that people with disabilities can be full members of society and nothing to give ordinary people. However, our predecessors in their personal example showed that certain physical defects can not prevent a person to be the greatest representatives of humanity.

Julius Caesar (epilepsy), a famous general

Henry Ford (dyslexia), invented the car

Thomas Edison (hearing problems, learning difficulties in childhood - could not learn to read

until 12 years old, diabetic), invented the electric incandescent lamp (light bulb), also invented the phonograph (the forerunner of

sound reproduction and sound recordings) and the movie camera

Hans Christian Andersen (dyslexia), writer, storyteller

Alexander Bell (learning difficulties), invented the telephone.

Leonardo da Vinci (dyslexia), artist, inventor.

Isaac Newton (stuttering, epilepsy), discovered the theory of gravity

Walt Disney (learning difficulties), Producer

Ludwig van Beethoven (deaf with age) (1770 - 1827) - German composer,

conductor and pianist, one of the most respected and performed composers

in the world

• Stevie Wonder (1950) - American musician, singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer. He lost his sight in infancy. In the oxygen-boxing, which put the child received too much oxygen. Result - pigmentary degeneration of the retina and blindness. They call him one of the greatest musicians of our time: 22 times received the Grammy Award, became one of the musicians are actually defined popular styles of the "black" music - rhythm and blues and soul mid-XX century. Name Wonder immortalized in the Hall of Fame Rock and Roll "and" Hall of Fame composers in the U.S.. During his career he has recorded over 30 albums.

• Eric Vayhenmayer (1968) - the world's first climber who reached the summit of Everest, being blind. Eric Vayhenmayer lost his sight when he was 13 years old. Onako he finished school, and then he became a secondary school teacher, then a coach in wrestling and world-class athlete. On the journey Vayhenmayera director Peter Winter took the game television film "Touch the top of the world." In Vayhenmayer conquered Everest seven highest mountain peaks of the world, including Kilimanjaro and Mount Elbrus.