Intellectual Disability Quotes

• Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into their local community.

  Nelson Mandela

  School, Years, Community

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• Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Giving, Autism

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can be associated with some degree of intellectual disability, but the two core features of autism, I see, is impairments and social cognition, understanding and in restricted interests and repetitive behaviors.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Epilepsy, Two, Autism

  "What is Autism?". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

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• We can't have close to 90 percent of those prenatally diagnosed with an intellectual disability being aborted; 90 percent not going to school; more than 90 percent reporting discrimination in the healthcare system; and 90 percent unemployed, and tell ourselves that we're doing a good job. The obstacles to leading a full life for the vast majority of people with intellectual disabilities are far beyond what they should be, and far beyond what we should tolerate. So yeah, I want change.

  Timothy Shriver

  Jobs, School, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• 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!

  Lauren Potter

  People, Intellectual, Important

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• Kids coming from very difficult economic circumstances in urban areas are in some ways discriminated against in ways that are similar to the way people with intellectual disabilities are discriminated against. People are afraid of them. People sometimes assume that they don't have skills, gifts or abilities to contribute.

  Timothy Shriver

  Kids, Skills, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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