Learning Disabilities Links

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Learning Disabilities Links

	British Institute of Learning Disabilities. - Committed to improving the lifestyles of people with learning disabilities.
	Carrickfergus Mencap Society - Charity which campaigns for equal rights for children and adults with a learning disability and offers a variety of services to them, their families and their carers. Includes news, activities and contacts.
	Change - National organisation run by disabled people and fighting for the rights of learning disabled people, especially those deaf and blind. News, publications and links.
	Havant Mencap - Registered charity helping people with learning disabilities in the local community. Hampshire.
	Mencap - Campaigns for equal rights for people with learning disabilities and provides services to them, their families and care givers. Contains details of current campaigns and fundraising efforts as well as advice sections and members area.
	Warrington Mencap - Charity group providing help and support for people with a learning disability and for their families. Offers recreational activities, clubs, holiday trips, as well as supported and independent living programs.
	Thanet Mencap Society - Provides information about social events and outings, the day centre, work opportunities projects, residences, shop and tea rooms, plus sports, leisure and Special Olympic groups.
	Redbridge Mencap - Promoting the care, treatment and education of mentally handcapped children and adults. Includes information about the organisation and their work, newsletters, photographs, fundraising details and a list of events. London.
	Northallerton and the Dales Mencap Society - Mencap Society holding the interests of people with learning disabilities and their carers in the Hambleton and Richmondshire Districts of North Yorkshire. Includes useful links database.
	Worthing Mencap - Championing the rights of mentally handicapped people and their families and directly improving the facilities and opportunities available to them. Achievements and news.
	Mencap West Sussex - Helping the 18,000 residents in the area with a learning disability. Campaigns, local groups, newsroom and links.
	Mencap West Lancs - Reports, news and a database project which records the needs, problems and aspirations of people with learning disabilities in the area.
	West Berkshire Mencap - Fundraising and campaigning group with services to help those with a learning disability or mental handicap, their families and carers. Details of support groups, clubs, library and toy library.
	Waltham Forest Mencap - Background, local projects, services, volunteering and contacts.
	Tonbridge & District Mencap Society - Home Page - Introduction, services and information on various clubs, the helpline, holidays and funding.
	Connects - Mental health and learning disabilities portal. A worldwide, interactive, personalised forum for the sharing of information by people whose lives are touched by mental health problems and/or learning disabilities. (Requires free registration.)
	Birmingham Adult Dyslexia Group - Information about the group and its support activities, with substantial information about the condition and related disorders.
	Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability - A partnership of 13 organisations offering advice, consultancy and awareness raising. Information on their campaigns, research, membership, publications and contact details.
	ARC - Umbrella group offering information and advice to organisations who provide for people with a learning disability. Services, training, projects, publications and contributions to national standards and debates.
	Prospects - Christian voluntary organisation which values and supports people with learning disabilities so that they live their lives to the full.
	Collaborative Group for Learning Disability Research - Provides a forum for researchers in North West England to exchange ideas and findings about learning disability research. Offers a newsletter, a digest of completed research projects, information about conferences and events, and reports.
	Acton Saturday Venture Club - Charity in Ealing which provides leisure activities and support for young people with learning disabilities and their families. Background, activities and contact information.

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Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Learning Disabilities The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Learning Disabilities Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." 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O'Rourke The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde Learning Disabilities Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Learning Disabilities The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry Learning Disabilities "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Learning Disabilities Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Learning Disabilities Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland 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) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Learning Disabilities I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Learning Disabilities The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos Learning Disabilities "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Learning Disabilities "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck Learning Disabilities What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko Learning Disabilities "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Learning Disabilities Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |