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The National Association for Gifted Children - Provides support for gifted and talented children and their families and all others involved in their education and welfare. Also to increase awareness of high ability and to convert potential into achievement
Special Education Needs Legal Services - Education law service offering advice and help for parents of children with special educational needs.
National Association for Special Educational Needs - Membership, research, publications, events and courses, relevant links and contact information.
Deaf Lifelong Learning Project - Comprehensive resource for colleges, universities and other learning providers who wish to attract and provide for Deaf students. Includes information on issues of access, recruitment, support, and learning.
The Dyslexia Institute - An educational charity for the assessment and teaching of people with dyslexia, and for the training of specialist teachers. Details of activities and nationwide network of centres.
Conductive Education Online - Information about conductive education services for children with cerebral palsy and related conditions, and for adults with movement disabilities. Includes details of training, research, development and a conductive education library.
SEN Teacher Resources - Online worksheet generators, software and links for teachers and SEN professionals.
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and Special Needs "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Special Needs "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th Special Needs Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Special Needs If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Special Needs The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Special Needs Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Special Needs In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Special Needs "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Special Needs Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen Special Needs I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw Special Needs The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Special Needs "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Special Needs We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer Special Needs "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Special Needs "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Special Needs A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn Special Needs He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Special Needs There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Special Needs "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Special Needs Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy Special Needs "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Special Needs
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