Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation. — Mary Bono
The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence. — Hans Asperger
I strongly recommend that students with autism get involved in special interest clubs in some of the areas they naturally excel at. Being with people who share your interests makes socializing easier. — Temple Grandin
From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking. — Tony Attwood
If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing. — Temple Grandin
What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done. — Temple Grandin
It's not just the child that has autism. It's the whole family that has autism. It's not a one person thing. — Ted Lindsay
A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing — Nicholas Sparks
It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential. — Hans Asperger
Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart. — Allan Snyder
As a mom, you worry about protecting your kid. But there are extra added layers of fears when you're talking about a kid with autism or who has some special needs issue. — Holly Robinson Peete
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand. — Beatrix Potter
I know of nobody who is purely autistic, or purely neurotypical. Even God has some autistic moments, which is why the planets spin. — Jerry Newport
Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution. — Tony Attwood
Children With Autism Quotes
I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God. — Fred Melamed
Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all areas of life. — Temple Grandin
If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism. — Stephen Shore
Children with Autism aren't missing. Instead, they are off making discoveries — Jacob Barnett
Don't think that there's a different, better child 'hiding' behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child. — Claire LaZebnik
Children with special needs inspire a very, very special love. — Sarah Palin
One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath. — Daphne Zuniga
If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough on the child. — Stuart Duncan
Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time. — Stuart Duncan
Autism Quotes
Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior". — Hans Asperger
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. — Margaret Mead
We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation we have shattered the universe. All the disasters that are happening now are a consequence of that spiritual 'autism.' — Thomas Berry
A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. — Eda LeShan
I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life. — Tony Attwood
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. — Samuel Butler
I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations. — Gary Numan
The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not. — Michael Shermer
Special Needs Children Quotes
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. — Dalai Lama
We believe in the abilities of our children of special needs and their high potential, we shall work together to support them and provide them with the opportunity to contribute to the development of our nation and secure a better future for themselves. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability. — Lori Borgman
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. — Ellen Goodman
Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it. — Barbara Coloroso
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults. — Alison Gopnik
It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. — Benjamin Franklin
If every child matters, every child has the right to a good start in life. If every child matters, every child has the right to be included. And that is so important for children with special needs. — Cherie Blair
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. — Bill Cosby
I found real fulfillment through my children and through adopting special needs kids. — Mia Farrow
We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their role well, perhaps better than anyone else could, and we are talking of people who as children had the greatest difficulties and caused untold worries to their care-givers. — Hans Asperger
Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity. — Charles Colson
You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out. — Temple Grandin
As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment. — Temple Grandin
At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years. — Jenny McCarthy
Autistic children are extremely bright if you can connect to them and bring them into our world. Socially it's really hard for them, but it can happen. — Tisha Campbell-Martin
Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration. — Daniel H. Wilson
Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it. — Temple Grandin
This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is that one day we will cease to be, and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces. — Jim Sinclair
Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices. — Temple Grandin
Vaccination programs were instituted in the late 1930s, and the first handful of autistic babies were noted in the early 1940s. When vaccination programs were expanded after the war, the number of autistic children increased greatly. — Harris L Coulter
Mom worked with autistic children. — Isabel Lucas
• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead. — Guy Kawasaki
Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child. — Stuart Duncan
A lot of the moms of autistic kids I met are so consumed with being their child's advocate that there's no room for anything else - least of all themselves. It's why so many marriages end in divorce, when a child is diagnosed on the spectrum. — Jodi Picoult
We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists. — Dan Marino
If you see a child with autistic-like behaviors at age two and three, the worst thing you can do is just let them sit and watch TV all day. That's just the worst thing you can do. You need to have a teacher working with that child, working on teaching language, working on social interaction, working on getting them interested in different things, and keeping their brain connected to the world. — Temple Grandin
Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has spread around, in a very wicked way, the idea that these inoculations were making children autistic. Now we're getting outbreaks that are killing children. The end result is, if you create a population that lacks immunity, and diseases are still there, you're going to get outbreaks and you're going to get death. — Margaret Atwood
There are three basic ways [to use a dog to work with autistic children], one is just to be companion person and I'm thinking now more of autistic kids not somebody in a wheelchair or the dog belongs to a therapist and then it's used as an ice breaker to get the kid talking and get the kid interacting. — Temple Grandin
Well the dog that is the most is the a Labrador retrievers because they tolerate kids tugging on them and things better than other dogs. They are a real good natured. They’re also real calm and sometimes when working with autistic children that’s probably more popular dog breed - now there are different ways to use service animals. — Temple Grandin
There's no doubt having an autistic child represents tremendous challenges for both the children and their parents, but in my experience, it has brought me closer to my family and has given me an appreciation for how the human brain develops and the uniqueness of each child it afflicts. — Manny Alvarez
I had never had any experience of autism before and I would come home and look at my son, Billy, who is now two, and be absolutely paranoid, particularly because he loves Thomas the Tank Engine, and lots of autys love Thomas. But he is not very good at pointing, and autistic children absolutely love pointing. — Helena Bonham Carter
Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief. — Melanie Roach
I am the father of a 9 year-old son whose descent into the world of autism began at the age of 7 months old after receiving numerous vaccinations in a single day; the same story that is told by thousands of other parents of children throughout the country whose healthy, normally developing children have become autistic after vaccinations. — Rick Rollens
A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done. — George Carlin
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