Top 362 Developmental Disabilities Quotes & Sayings

Disabilities and misfortune can make you stronger.

When I came to NXT, it was very much a developmental brand.

You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.

Not disabilities at all - more Abilities.

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.

We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.

There is no evidence, that I am aware of, that points to a link between vaccines and developmental disability.

On the other hand, there are plenty of red flags that link developmental disabilities to things like lead and mercury and pesticides and air pollution and certain kinds of unhealthy foods, and that's what's begging for a comprehensive and definitive study. We should have a long-term prospectus study that looks at all, you know, exposures, medications, life habits, etc., pollution, and traces people over a period of many years, starting with when - starting with their parents, from when they are healthy. This is how we learned what causes heart disease.

I have my Masters degree in international relations, banking job experience with Citibank, and I have also worked in developmental organisations.

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.

People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do.

The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers.

Our focus should be on developmental dimensions of atomic science with a special outreach to India's youth.

The message I'll share...is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.

As I began to grow, my family thought my obsessive interest in girly things was just a normal developmental phase.

A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people have different types of disabilities, and you cannot put a code that applies towards everyone - generally, they can be guidelines, but in the long run, interior designers and architects need more education on the subject. That's what's missing.

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise.

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

I'm a huge advocate for individuals with disabilities.

The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.

A lot of times, we look at people who have disabilities as, 'Oh, we can't invite these people here or there.' And I hate that, because it's inappropriate. It's so weird to me when people say they don't have friends who have disabilities.

Senator [Sam] Brownback talked about those with disabilities that are destroyed in the womb because of a genetic test that is sometimes wrong. I would put forward that we all have disabilities.

When you think about the Americans with Disabilities Act and what it takes for employers sometimes to accommodate a person with disabilities, when we talk about reasonable accommodations - it's doable, but the payoff isn't always obvious right away.

I did an expose of an institution for the population with developmental disabilities, and the institutions were closed as a result of the expose. Now the developmentally disabled are cared for in small community-based residences, and I've been working very hard over the decades to open as many of them as I can.

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people have different types of disabilities, and you cannot put a code that applies to towards everyone - generally, they can be guidelines, but in the long run, interior designers and architects need more education on the subject.

The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.

Whether you know it or not, when you leave one of my shows, you have a different understanding of disabilities and what disability is.

Because addiction is a developmental problem, the developmental stage is important, things like employment are important, things like having a sense of purpose, meaning and hope are important, and this is why there's been so many spiritual cures for addiction, because those things often give people a sense of meaning and purpose.

Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.

I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

I would love to see TNA get a developmental program.

People with disabilities are capable and deserve the same opportunities as everyone else.

You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.

Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

Some people's developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something.

I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.

People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world, and we are the most underrepresented in entertainment.

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.

Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ... A central task of developmental biology is to discover the underlying algorithm from the course of development.

Developmental readings are actually the best part of being an actor for me. I once spent a month doing so many developmental readings at the Roundabout that we all joked that I was an 'artist in residence' there. But to me, it's such a special time to be involved with a new play.

I have known Kofi for such a long time. We were in developmental together in Louisville.

People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S.

It feels amazing to be a role model for people with and without disabilities.

I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the President trusts me to advise him on things that are important to people with disabilities!

Diversity is not only color, but it also includes individuals with disabilities.

Don’t call us people with disabilities… we have DIFFabilities!

The way I look at it is, we all have disabilities.

It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

Back in the 1950s, we did a study in Framingham called the Framingham Study.This needs to be done for developmental disabilities. It's outrageous that people have had to live with this heartache for so long without having a definitive answer.

Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on the other hand, is the developmental history of the concrete, morphological individual.

Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Often, films about people with disabilities are from the outside looking in.