Exceptional People Assignment

Welcome Grades 3-5!

Your project is to research a person who was considered to be disabled but who overcame their disability to achieve great things. One example of such a person is Helen Keller.

I'd like you to explore the links below to begin research on your Exceptional Person.

Stephen Hawking - Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist and Mathematician

• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALS

Rick Hanson - Spinal Cord Injury Activist.

• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Hansen
• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralysis
• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_cord

Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 32nd President of the United States of America

• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt
• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio
• http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/po/Polio

Aimee Mullins - Athlete, Actress, Model

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Mullins
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemimelia
• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation

Harriet Tubman - Humanitarian

• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_injury
• http://www.epilepsy.com/pdfs/what_is_a_seizure.pdf

Ludwig van Beethoven - Musician and Composer

• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven
• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deafness

Albert Einstein - Theoretical Physicist

• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein
• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_disability
• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia

Christy Brown - Artist

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Brown
• http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_palsy