Laura Linney Quotes

My plan B, if acting doesn't work out, is to work with disabled children.

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.

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

I was always interested in working with people with disabilities, and in high school I worked with people who had Down Syndrome. That was for an agency called AHRC, Association for the Help of Retarded Children. Then I went to college, and throughout college I volunteered for AHRC.

Mom worked with autistic children.

When I was 17 I interned at a school, and it was the most exhausting, difficult thing I've ever done, with all these screaming children.

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 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.

When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read 'Ulysses' and that you're just giving up on children if you think it's elitist - does that include children with special needs or whose first language isn't English?

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

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.

It's different when your son is not typical, and you have to deal with him and handle him every single day.

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.

My heart goes out to kids with autism.

But I've often said that if I had – I have two dogs – if I had two retarded children, I'd be a hero. And yet the dogs, which are pretty much the same thing. What? They're sweet. They're loving. They're kind, but they don't mentally advance at all. Dogs are like retarded children.

We're so special, when you look in the dictionary under short bus, there's a group picture of us,'' Stevie Rae said, sounding weak but definately alive.

Children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

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

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

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.

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.

Having a two-year-old son is challenging, and my missus is only 21, so we're both young, and it is difficult.

I definitely want to have a career in the TV/film industry, as I love acting, but if it all goes to pot, I want to set up a performing arts school for children with special needs.

My heart bleeds, goes out for families with kids with autism.

I love kids a lot. I love to spend time with them. They give me the energy to live, and I would love to bring a smile on their faces.