Developmental Disabilities Quotes

• Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.

  Mary Bono

  Autism, Growing, Disability

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• 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.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Working Very Hard, Community, Population

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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

  Jill Stein

  Vaccines, Links, Disability

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• 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.

  Jill Stein

  Heart, Hands, Should Have

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• 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.

  Jill Stein

  Long, People, Heartache

  Source: www.politico.com

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