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Disabled Children - Factsheets published by the charity Contact a Family.
Family Fund - Charity aiming to support, advise and possibly help with funds for families with severely disabled children.
(Invisible) Disabilities in the UK - Links for disabled children in the UK in areas such as special needs, support groups, recreation, and general information about disabilities.
Parents for Inclusion - Support site run for parents by parents who have disabilities. Includes press releases and family stories.
Steps - Charity provides a free service to children between the ages of 2 and 16 who are unable to play with battery operated toys. They adapt and loan the toys changing them every three months.
A Step Forward - Informational and community site for young disabled people and their parents. Includes local and national useful contacts as well as news, pen pals and interviews.
The Children's Trust - Based at Tadworth, Surrey, the charity provides specialist care for severely disabled children many of whom have particularly complex health needs. Information on services offered, and contact details.
KIDS Online - Organisation assisting children with special needs. Information on services and how to support.
National Council for Disabled Children - Discussion, development and dissemination of policy and practice issues relating to service provision and support. Publications, projects, parent partnerships and events.
Parents with Attitude - Two mothers share their experience of living with disabled children.
Special-abilities.net - Information, advice and support for parents with disabled children. Information on education, toys, rights, grants, holidays, therapies and events.
e-learning Welcome - Information about the Carers and Disabled Children Act on this official government site.
Playback Trust - Scottish organisation working for the rights of disabled children and supporting families. History, aims, events and information for volunteers.
Henry Spink Foundation - A charity providing help to families with children who have a disability. Background, information centre and aims.
Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Children "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Children 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 You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Children Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Children Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Children Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken Children "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr Children "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Children I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Children It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous Children Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a Children "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Children "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Children If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Children If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Children The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau Children If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Children We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Children The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Children Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Children "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Children He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe Children
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