JFK High School, located in a run-down area in Newark, New Jersey, is a public school for all types of students with special education needs. Janet Mino has taught her class of young men with autism for four years. When they all graduate, they will leave the security of the public school system forever.
Best Kept Secret follows Ms. Mino and her students over the year and a half before graduation. The clock is ticking to find them a place in the adult world - a job or rare placement in a recreational center - so they do not end up where their predecessors have, sitting at home, institutionalized, or on the streets.
Release Date: 2013
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This series follows job seekers with conditions such as autism or Tourette Syndrome as they work to overcome obstacles and find fulfilling employment that provides them with the skills to excel long term in their careers.
Release Date: 2019
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Far from the Tree follows families meeting extraordinary challenges through love, empathy, and understanding. This life - affirming documentary encourages us to cherish loved ones for all they are, not who they might have been. Based on Andrew Solomon's award - winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling non - fiction book "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity."
Release Date: 2018
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This engaging film follows an intensive film camp for children aged eleven to nineteen who have autism spectrum disorders. The camp is led by award-winning educator Brad Koepenick, an actor who found his true passion in the classroom. Koepenick models his camp around recent research principles showing that developing autistic children’s creativity significantly improves social interaction skills. The film follows seven children with Asperger syndrome as they create films, poems, paintings, and music. Revealing moments in the children’s private lives and candid interviews with their parents bring to life the challenges they and their families face in coping with their disorders. Presently, more than one child in one hundred has autism, and a growing number are diagnosed each year. Kids with Cameras offers insight into the potential of these young people when their creative energies are unleashed.
Release Date: 2009
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A documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams based on a book by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Ron Suskind. Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? Life, Animated is the real - life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood.
Release Date: 2016
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Whether it’s Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Stroke or Dementia, cutting-edge neuroscience is beginning to change what’s possible when it comes to recovery and prevention. Speaking with the world’s top neuroscientists A Life Unbound explores brain plasticity strategies and the role these strategies can play in revolutionizing the human experience.
Release Date: 2020
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The Limits of My World follows a nonverbal young man's transition from the school system into adulthood. Brian has autism and faces the daily challenges of adjusting to his new life. Filmed from the intimate perspective of his older sister Heather, this documentary seeks to understand Brian's personality beneath his disability.
Release Date: 2019
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Imagine being able to list every country in the world and its capital city, remember what we ate for dinner on 9 March 2002 and every prime number up to 7,507. In this highly personal and emotional film, Horizon discovers how brains that see the world in strikingly different ways are unlocking the secrets of our own minds. Presented by Psychologist Prof Uta Frith, who has devoted 50 years to studying autism, we meet the remarkable characters who have revolutionised our understanding of the human brain.
Release Date: 2014
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Too Sane for This World explores the challenges, gifts, and distinct perspectives of 12 adults on the autism spectrum. Featuring an introduction by bestselling author, Dr. Temple Grandin, and interviews designed by adults with high-functioning autism, the film discusses many of the problems facing the autism community – from bullying to marginalization and discrimination. A unique collaboration between neurotypical and atypical individuals, men and women living on the spectrum speak candidly about defining and coming to terms with their autism, difficulties they’ve faced, and the experiences that have shaped their lives, illustrating the neurodiversity of the mind and it’s limitless potential.
Release Date: 2011
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