Tucker Max Quotes

Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.

Autism is a very serious condition.

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'

If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

When I was in primary school I was in a special needs group, which is the polite way of saying the dopey kids.

Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its classic form. Basically, it's an inability to relate to others.

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.

Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as other kids their age.

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.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

A fearful child cannot learn.

You want your kids to be developing at the right level, and everyone says, 'They'll be fine, they'll get there.' But you get concerned. You just want to make sure there's nothing else.

All Children Have Brain Damage!

But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.

I'm completely dyslexic - it's the writing part. People read what I've written, and they have no idea what I'm trying to say.

Early care and education helps children build the skills they need for success in kindergarten and can help close the achievement gap.

I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.

A child who can't read isn't going to get better because you told him he was bad.

Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of the rising generation...I have often said it is the mother who forms the mind of the child. Take men anywhere, at sea, sinking with their ship, dying in battle, lying down in death almost under any circumstances, and the last thing they think if, the last word they say is "mother." Such is the influence of woman.

The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences