Nyle DiMarco Quotes

With the right support, a deaf child can do exactly the same as a hearing child, yet constantly, they're being failed.

There are many issues within the deaf community but, for me, none more important than access to education for deaf children.

Millions of children all over the world live in silence and face communication barriers - and, particularly, access to education.

I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

Due to the closure of many deaf schools in the U.K., deaf children are forced to attend mainstream school. I don't mind this idea: I think it's inclusive, and it better prepares children for life in a hearing world. I don't mind this idea - if that child gets the right support.

I grew up with deaf teachers, and I thought all deaf children should have exposure to deaf educators.

I've seen the needless struggles that deaf children and deaf people face, and that gave me the impetus to write.

Deafness and sign language are extremely close to my heart.

Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.

Say what you want about the deaf.

I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

I did get a degree in special education.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

When I began my practice, I said I'm going to be a pediatrician that really thinks about and understands a child's educational trajectory.

Down syndrome kids can learn. Like Corky. That's the way I feel about it... For those kids who have Down syndrome, to give them a chance.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say 'oral method' to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say 'sign language' to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

We need to make sure we have in every school teachers trained and qualified to make sure every child, including children with different learning styles, succeed.

We need our children in Jamaica - especially those suffering with dyslexia, autism, cerebral palsy - to get more attention.

I was very shy. I didn't really hang around with hearing people very much. Mostly I had deaf friends.

The cause is very close to my heart, and I'm proud to be supporting NDCS in helping deaf children overcome the challenges they face in everyday life.

I always say deafness is a silent disability: you can't see, and it's not life-threatening, so it has to touch your life in some way in order for it to be on your radar.

In middle school, I had the best math teacher I've ever had, and he was deaf... and I felt inspired by him. I knew from then on that I wanted to be a math teacher.

Schools shouldn't have to choose between serving a student with special needs or cutting an art class, laying off teachers or using outdated textbooks. But these are the positions that far too many schools have been placed in, and only a meaningful acknowledgment of the problem can begin the process of getting them out.