Judith Durham Quotes

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.

It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.

People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better.

Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.

I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

I never read. I've never read one book... I just can't do it. Something's wrong with me. I have what they call now is 'ADD,' like I'll read and all of a sudden I'll be thinking about shopping or... I'm not there. I drift off. I get crazy, so I don't even bother.

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.

I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.

I'm dyslexic, which means I have trouble reading and writing. So images really speak to me.

I'm completely dyslexic - it's the writing part. People read what I've written, and they have no idea what I'm trying to say.

I'm a bit dyslexic so I found learning to read hard. I muddled up the letters but learnt to power through.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things.

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.'

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.

My daughter couldn't wake me up, so they called 911. They rushed me to the hospital. They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain. I was unconscious for a week, and I was in rehab for two months - couldn't walk, couldn't talk. Now I've relearned everything. I'm so happy.

I know what not being able to read can do to a child's confidence.

I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put me by the wayside for a number of years.