Alderwasley Hall School - Provides specialist residential and day education for children of primary and secondary school age with speech, language and communication difficulties. Includes information on education, therapy and assessment procedures. Located in Derbyshire.
St Catherine's School and Grove Hill Further Education Centre - Non-maintained, residential special school on the Isle of Wight, for children with primary speech and language disorders in Key Stages 2 to 4. Information about education and facilities, speech and communication therapy, and vocational training for students aged 16-19.
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Language and Speech Difficulties You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
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Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Language and Speech Difficulties In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Language and Speech Difficulties
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Language and Speech Difficulties The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Language and Speech Difficulties
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Language and Speech Difficulties Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Language and Speech Difficulties
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Language and Speech Difficulties Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Language and Speech Difficulties
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Language and Speech Difficulties Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Language and Speech Difficulties
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Language and Speech Difficulties Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Language and Speech Difficulties
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Language and Speech Difficulties "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Language and Speech Difficulties
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Language and Speech Difficulties Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Language and Speech Difficulties
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Language and Speech Difficulties We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Language and Speech Difficulties
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Language and Speech Difficulties Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Language and Speech Difficulties
