Quotes About Learning Disability

#1. Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

Christopher Eccleston

#2. I hated school ... One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell ...

Loretta Young

#3. I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

Jason Alexander

#4. The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.

Ron White

#5. I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

Ann Bancroft

#6. I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability ... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Andrew Greeley

#7. What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.

John H. Johnson

#8. As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.

Henry Winkler

#9. If the only time a child looks as if he has bipolar disorder is when he's frustrated, that's not bipolar disorder; that's a learning disability in the domains of flexibility and frustration tolerance.

Ross W. Greene

#10. I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.

Scoot McNairy

#11. I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

Sloane Crosley

#12. How many times did you have to take a guy's hand and tell him, "Dude, it's right here." If he had that kind of learning disability in sports, he'd be a bench decoration. She

Suanne Laqueur

#13. People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people's boats. It's a disease that costs more to cure than any other single common learning disability.

Randy Wayne

#14. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

Patricia Polacco

#15. So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

Robert Sternberg

#16. I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.

Bruce Jenner

#17. For a long time I spent my weary days in a fog of what might be and what has been and I guess you could say im still learning how to accept what is.

Nikki Rowe

#18. Understanding our children's frustrations with dyslexia and giving them the tools to blossom will give them the confidence to reach their true potential. We can help our children channel their interests and talents and ignite the passion within.

Carolina Frohlich

#19. It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.

Michael Pollan

#20. Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Brian Tracy

#21. I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!

Shahid Kapoor

#22. If you take a hard look at the people in your life, you may be blown away by how many explorers and survivalists surround you. Everyday, I'm amazed by the number of people I meet, who have climbed Mt. Everest, time and time again ...
without ever having been to the Himalayas.

Jose N. Harris

#23. If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

Olivia Wilde

#24. One in six people in the U.S. at some point each year don't know where their next meal will come from.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#25. As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I found that I could do quite a few of them. I wasn't a visual presence, and I found it easier to construct a voice from the written page.

Peter Cullen

#26. Notice the difference: A child's disability is the focus in traditional classroom settings, but his abilities are the focus in the homeschool environment.

Sandra K. Cook

#27. Today, with tears in my eyes, I telephoned the mother of one of our children (aged thirteen) who had spoken for the first time since the age of three...

Michael Braccia

#28. Recently, I spent eight days in a car with my co-host from Top Gear James May, who has a notoriously flatulent bottom. But because he was living on army rations the interior was always pine fresh and lemon zesty.

Jeremy Clarkson

#29. Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there.

Robert Harris