Actor, Activists, Author, Champion for Prison Reform and Dyslexia
TV and Film Actor, Ameer Baraka, using his Dyslexia Awareness Foundation (www.DyslexiaAwarenessFoundation.org) to help kids with dyslexia, to help with prison reform by screening prisoners for dyslexia, and to buld dyslexia treatment centers throughout the United States and around the world.
Ameer Baraka understands firsthand how undiagnosed dyslexia can dangerously alter the course of a person’s life. Ameer Baraka in first grade. “I knew something was wrong in the third grade,” he recalls. “I couldn’t spell simple words, like ‘bat’ or ‘sit.’ Every Friday we had a spelling test and I could never pass that test.” […]
JO ANNE SIMON SEP 6, 2017 12:12 PM Apple’s Steve Jobs had it. So did Nelson Rockefeller, and so do Bill Gates, Anderson Cooper, Ameer Baraka, Steven Spielberg and many more leaders, scholars, authors, actors, scientists, lawyers and financiers. Each of these famous, highly successful people has dyslexia, a condition in the brain that […]
Ameer Baraka aka “The Sexy Dyslexic” of American Horror Story fame, and the author of the acclaimed memoir, “The Life I Chose – The Streets Lied to Me” (www.BarakaBook.com), is shown mentoring youth at the Gretna, LA Police Department’s 2017 summer camp for at-risk youth. The Gretna Police Department purchased copy of Baraka’s book for […]
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