Learning Differences Quotes

For the weaknesses I have with spelling and all those other things with being dyslexic, I have a lot of other strengths also.

If you have a child with autism, and he or she has good intelligence, with no delay in language learning maybe there is an advantage to autism as well? Maybe it gives them a better understanding of mathematics, or science? After all, the essence of science and the essence of autism is to notice patterns that others have not noticed.

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don’t read reviews, I mean I don’t read reviews.

Since we all have different cognitive profiles, educators should take those individual differences very seriously.

Everyone's brain works in a different way. I didn't feel smart in school; I just didn't get it. I thought I was an idiot. Until I got out.

I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

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.

Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.

The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.

Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction.

Being dyslexic can actually help in the outside world. I see some things clearer than other people do because I have to simplify things to help me and that has helped others.

I've got a funny way of looking at things. It's because I'm dyslexic, and I was diagnosed with ADD when I was younger. And I'm left-handed as well.

Everyone has their own way of learning.

Sting and I have six kids between us. A lot of members of our family have ADHD and dyslexia.

Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.

I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.

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

It is not easy to compete when you have LD, but it is possible.

Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it also gave me a way to demonstrate to my teacher that, despite the fact that I couldn't write a paper or do math, I was paying attention.

I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.

Not everything that happens in an in-person classroom is currently replicated with an online course, and perhaps the experience will never be the quite the same. But there are new opportunities that online learning opens up that would have never been possible without this technology.

In school, I always had to work harder than others.

Men and women study things differently, and it's not because of our chromosomes. It's a product of our cultural conditioning.