Response to text: Overcoming a Disability

 Overcoming a Disability

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1. Frida Kahlo is a famous

a) Singer                                                b) Athlete

c) Artist                                                         d) Actress

2. John Nash is an American mathematician who won 

a) A Gold Medal at the Paralympics                     b) The Nobel Prize in Physics

c) An Oscar for the movie ‘Beautiful Mind’         d) The Nobel Prize in Economics

3. Stephen Hawking was a famous Scientist who had to communicate using

a) Sign Language                             b) Singing

c) A Voice Synthesiser                                d) Text Messaging

4. List 2 facts about Nick Vujicic

→Although Nick doesn't have any limbs, he does have two toes on his left foot (which he calls his chicken drumstick).

→ He can write, type 45 words per minute, swim, answer the phone and kick tennis balls extremely far. 4. He started his first business, Life without Limbs,

5. True or False: Andrea Boccelli became completely blind at the age of 12

a) True b) False

6. Michael J Fox suffers from...

a) Paraplegia                                                b) Parkinson’s Disease

c) Schizophrenia                                d) Muscular Dystrophy

7. Explain why the celebrities mentioned above are amazing people. 

→the amazing person is nick vujicic and frida kahlo and people they amazing because they do not let there disability stop them from doing great things