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New! How to Write and Produce Your Own High School Musical
Item# 40509
© 2008
38 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-067-8
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61616-066-1
Geared specifically to educators and produced by a working drama teacher, this program offers practical, hands-on guidance for creating an original high school musical. Viewers learn six essential com...
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New! Special Education
Item# 40448
© 2008
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-59535-987-2
This program provides a general introduction to special education. Causes of disabilities are discussed, along with the characteristics and capabilities of children with special needs such as mental r...
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Fixing My Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Arrowsmith Program
Item# 40323
© 2008
52 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-559-7
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-560-3
In her youth, Barbara Arrowsmith struggled with a severe learning dysfunction-until she designed a self-improvement regimen aimed at strengthening areas of her brain. This film profiles Arrowsmith, ta...
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Real Life Teens: Teens and Disabilities
Item# 37518
© 2007
18 Min.
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This program explores the different ways that disabilities can impact a teen's life and how the general student population can support people with disabilities. Subjects covered include what a disabil...
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Inside Dyslexia
Item# 38731
© 2007
58 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-8636-2
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-8637-9
Often viewed as a weakness, dyslexia actually means that a person processes information differently, and many with the disorder have learned to see it as a strength. This program illustrates the chall...
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Touched by Genius: A Neurological Look at Creativity
Item# 37592
© 2007
50 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-8033-9
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-8034-6
Nick van Bloss possesses astonishing musical talent. He is also afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome. As this program illustrates, the two are often linked, leading those born with the disorder to view...
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Beautiful Minds: The Psychology of the Savant
Item# 36422
© 2006
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-5837-6
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-5836-9
In the field of brain research there is no subject more intriguing than the savant-an individual with mental, behavioral, or even physical disability who possesses acute powers of observation, mathema...
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The Einstein Effect: Savants and Creativity
Item# 36424
© 2006
54 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-5840-6
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-5841-3
Mute until the age of nine, Stephen Wiltshire learned to communicate through realistic, richly detailed drawings. Alonzo Clemens sculpts clay animal figures with great precision, even though he can ba...
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A Little Matter of Gender: Developmental Differences among Savants
Item# 36425
© 2006
54 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-5842-0
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-5843-7
One of the great success stories from the world of autism, Temple Grandin revolutionized the field of livestock management, empowered by her sensitivity with animals. Tommy McHugh displayed no such se...
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Memory Masters: How Savants Store Information
Item# 36423
© 2006
53 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-5838-3
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-5839-0
Reudiger Gamm performs complex arithmetic instantly and without help-his brain stores numbers like a calculator. Orlando Sorrel remembers exactly what he was doing on any date, at any hour, and can ac...
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