Betsy DeVos Quotes

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

I think we have to think about strategies that will help kids who have disabilities.

The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can't understand what I'm sayin.

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her.

Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.

We need to make sure we have in every school teachers trained and qualified to make sure every child, including children with different learning styles, succeed.

We need our children in Jamaica - especially those suffering with dyslexia, autism, cerebral palsy - to get more attention.

Line up a group of Horace Mann students, interview them, and take a look at their resumes, and you'll be hard pressed to pick out the students who require extra time. So then, what qualifies these students to receive special accommodations on the SAT?

I was always interested in working with people with disabilities, and in high school I worked with people who had Down Syndrome. That was for an agency called AHRC, Association for the Help of Retarded Children. Then I went to college, and throughout college I volunteered for AHRC.

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

My plan B, if acting doesn't work out, is to work with disabled children.

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

Working with special needs children is hard.

I did get a degree in special education.

Down syndrome kids can learn. Like Corky. That's the way I feel about it... For those kids who have Down syndrome, to give them a chance.

When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read 'Ulysses' and that you're just giving up on children if you think it's elitist - does that include children with special needs or whose first language isn't English?

When I was in primary school I was in a special needs group, which is the polite way of saying the dopey kids.

Schools shouldn't have to choose between serving a student with special needs or cutting an art class, laying off teachers or using outdated textbooks. But these are the positions that far too many schools have been placed in, and only a meaningful acknowledgment of the problem can begin the process of getting them out.