Michael Jerome Oher is a former American football offensive tackle who played in the National Football League for eight seasons, primarily with the Baltimore Ravens.
Oher’s life through his final year of high school and first year of college is one of the subjects of Michael Lewis’ 2006 book, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, and was featured in the Academy Award-winning 2009 film The Blind Side. Oher was placed in foster care at age seven and alternated between living in various foster homes and periods of homelessness. Oher’s father was a former cellmate of Denise Oher’s brother and was murdered in prison when Oher was a senior in high school.
What is Michael Oher disability?
As a person of average intelligence, his learning achievements were now not in line with what he should be capable of. He legitimately had a learning disability. Michael was an enigma to these examiners. At 18, he still learned like a child learned, through association rather than knowledge. There had been an opportunity for Michael to learn to read and take in information properly when he arrived at Briarcrest, but his secretive and pleasing nature had hindered that.
