John Madden Quotes

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.

It could be easy to get frustrated or discouraged when it comes to educating students with disabilities. But that's because there are too often artificial barriers and roadblocks that limit your ability to focus on meeting their individual needs.

I think we have to think about strategies that will help kids who have disabilities.

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

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.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.

I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her.

Working with special needs children is hard.

Some children need help from the day they are born.

Early childhood education packs a real wallop in terms of the return on the investment.

The Institution has been devised to afford the means of receiving your children at an early age, almost as soon as they can walk. By this means many of you, mothers and families, will be able to earn a better maintenance or support for your children; you will have less care and anxiety about them, while the children will be prevented from acquiring any bad habits. and gradually prepared to learn the best.

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.

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.

For eight years, I taught special-needs preschool for 18 months to 3-year-olds. It's what I was gonna do with my career for a while, and then I got a little burnt out.

It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

Education, day care, health care—there's not a parent in the country that doesn't have a stake in one of these issues.

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.

The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education.