Florence Haseltine, Ph.D, M.D.
Director, Center for Population Research,
NIH Child Health & Human Development

Growing up dyslexic and hyperactive in the 1940s, Haseltine says, “The only reason I passed each grade was so teachers didn’t have to deal with me again.”

Now a distinguished scientist as well as the founder of the Society for the Advancement of Women’s Health Research, Haseltine says modestly about her remarkable abilities, “I’m quite good at taking odd things and putting them together.”

She also has considerable confidence in the abilities of children with learning disabilities: “Kids with LD,” she says, “know how to solve any problem more than one way.”