Schaeffer & dyslexia
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When I taught special education, I posted examples around the classroom of famous people with disabilities. Lee and I are now serving as the coordinators for special needs ministry for children at our church, so I loved seeing this interesting tidbit on Justin Taylor's blog a couple days ago. An interesting, encouraging, and little-known tidbit about Francis Schaeffer:Also, another good JT post this week was on my favorite Bible for preschoolers, The Big Picture Story Bible.
A large obstacle to his development, which went unnoticed, was severe dyslexia. In later years many of his students at L’Abri noticed what seemed to them amusing mispronunciations: he spoke of Mary Quaint (instead of Quant), the film Dr. Strange Glove (instead of Dr. Strangelove), and Chairman Mayo (instead of Mao). His youngest daughter Deborah Middelmann remembers him frequently calling down to her for the spelling of simple words like who and which, even when she was as young as five or six.—Collin Duriez, Francis Schaeffer: An Authentic Life, pp. 17-18.
(Image above borrowed from my good friend Wikipedia.)