Quotes of: Learning-disability Keyword

Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

Emily Oster

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find tha...

Lectures to My Students

For me, disability is a physical experience, but it's also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word 'crip' is the one that best encapsulated all of that.

Stella Young

I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

Oscar Pistorius

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

Stella Young

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

Stella Young

Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.

Stella Young

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

Malcolm Gladwell

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

Marlee Matlin

There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.

Andy Behrman

My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.

Craig Thompson

Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.

Jane Chen

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

Millicent Fawcett

The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.

Aubrey de Grey

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life.

Max Heindel

When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

Bill Shorten

The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

Bill Toomey

By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months.

Betty Hill

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

Warren Adler

I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Stephen Hawking