QUOTABLE: ELISE MILLER

“I talk to a lot of teachers, and any of them who have been in the classroom the last 20 or 25 years will tell you, ‘I used to have one kid or two kids who had learning problems or were disruptive, and now, half my class has behavioral issues.’ That’s not necessarily all because of environmental exposures, but genes don’t change that quickly. So social, nutritional, and environmental factors have got to be playing a significant role.”
Elise Miller, Executive Director of the Institute for
Children’s Environmental Health
and National Coordinator of the
Learning and Developmental
Disabilities Initiative