Learning Disabilities
98 title(s) found.
A Day So Beautiful
National Film Board Of Canada NFB531605The alarm buzzer sounds at 6 am, rousing a young man from a deep sleep. He examines his face in the...
A Gift For Grandma: Mia (Season 1)
Sardine Productions SAR016Mia wants to help her grandmother go faster by fixing her wheelchair. With help from Marty, they...
A Gift for Kate
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526576Kate is a recently discharged mental patient who now lives in a run-down halfway house. The weekly...
A Map of the Mind Fields: Managing Adolescent Psychosis
National Film Board Of Canada NFB529969Until recently a diagnosis of psychosis was seen as the end to normal life. With onset occurring...
A Mind of Your Own
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528438It is estimated that in every Canadian classroom, there are two or three kids affected by a...
A Place in the World
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527997Martin Langlois is 22 and autistic. His devoted parents cannot care for him much longer, so they...
All About Kids
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527972Quebec Aquarium: School children see marine life at close range. Children's Play Therapy: Games and...
Amedeo Modigliani, Ep. 34: Art With Mati and Dada Series
HG Distribution HG0034Moving to another apartment can be very tiresome; but Dada uses his magic to help the great Italian...
AutismVision: Creating Classroom Connections for Children with...
Human Relations Media 600451AutismVision: Creating Classroom Connections for Children with Autism is a video presentation to...
Basic Literary Terms (Vol. 5): Theme, Atmosphere, Foreshadowing...
Wonderscape Entertainment WE0131Explore essential literary terms, such as theme, atmosphere, foreshadowing, diction and anaphora...
Bearing Witness: Luke Melchior
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524329Luke Melchior jokes that at least he doesn't have to watch his cholesterol intake. Already, at 26...
Beyond the Blues: Child and Youth Depression
National Film Board Of Canada NFB529569Statistics reveal that depression in children and youth is on the rise. In fact, it has increased...
Blindness
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520706The story of a man who lost his sight during the best years of his life. Filmed with the help of...
Canada Vignettes: Erik Davidson - Mechanic
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521516A man who rebuilds and restores antique cars recounts how he was blinded in the Halifax harbour...
Canada Vignettes: Physiotherapist
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524077How a young woman physiotherapist spends much time, and a great deal of patience and care, helping...
Conspiracy of Silence
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528483A dramatic film about generational differences that almost split a family apart. Anna, fifteen...
Danny and Nicky
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522794A comparison of the care of two boys with Down syndrome, the one living at home with brothers and...
David with F.A.S.
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526692David Vandenbrink seems like a healthy 21-year-old, bright and articulate young man. There is...
Deciphering Dyslexia
National Film Board Of Canada NFB543138The trials and triumphs of four people facing a lifelong struggle with learning. Dyslexia is the...
Decoding Autism: Canada AM
CTV CTV472In Canada AM's newest 5-part program, two autism experts discuss early diagnosis and intervention...
Depressive States: Part 1
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524464A farmer who has suffered three nervous breakdowns is interviewed in the morning and again in the...
Depressive States: Part 2
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520625Two women patients are interviewed. The first one, a happy, active housewife, was suddenly struck...
Discussions in Bioethics: If You Want a Girl Like Me
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526226One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics...
Dyslexia: An Unwrapped Gift
Films Media Group 394111One in 25 people are dyslexic, but the teenagers involved in making this program would say that 24...
Ellen's Story
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527390Ellen Szita's childhood education never uncovered the fact that she had a learning disability and...
Eternal Children
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528356Children who through heredity, brain injury or various other causes are not equipped to keep pace...
Everybody's Handicapped
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522208A National Employment Service placement officer learns that in the man who is physically disabled...
Everyone's Business
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521213The Churchill Park Greenhouse Cooperative in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, is a small produce business...
Eye Witness No. 11
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520877Classroom on Rails: In Ontario forests north of Lake Superior, a school car is dropped off at a...
Eye Witness No. 17
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525299Modern Magic with Liquid Air: A physics lecture becomes a three-ring circus when professor John...
Eye Witness No. 32
National Film Board Of Canada NFB569818Show World's Show Place: The Toronto branch of Variety Club provides a residential vocational...
Feelings of Depression
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526553How and why feelings of depression carry over from childhood to overshadow adulthood are explained...
Fighting Their Fears: Child and Youth Anxiety
National Film Board Of Canada NFB529593Anxiety motivates us to get things done, but for some people, anxiety is not a driver. For many...
First Steps
National Film Board Of Canada NFB556336The film documents the treatment of crippled children in India. Using improvised equipment...
First Steps
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521846Mental retardation is a condition that affects one out of every hundred children in Canada. The...
Fixing My Brain
Matter of Fact Media MFM004FIXING MY BRAIN, a one-hour documentary that tells the dramatic story of Barbara Arrowsmith, a...
Flight from Darkness
National Film Board Of Canada NFB541783Percy Paul began his journey in a remote Dene community in northern Saskatchewan, a place where far...
Folie à deux
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521865"Folie à deux" is a type of madness which affects one person and is communicated to another when...
Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts
Passion River Films PR3136Autism: Disability or Gift? Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts is a powerful...
Has Anybody Seen My Umbrella?
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521661The story of a prince who leaves school after his grade one graduation thinking he knows all there...
Henri Rousseau, Ep. 20: Art With Mati and Dada Series
HG Distribution HG0021With so many paintings of jungles and forests, Rousseau should have been a tireless traveler! Mati...
I'll Find a Way
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524445When nine-year-old Nadia is allowed to attend a regular school, she knows the kids will tease her...
Listen Listen Listen
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526616This film is about a controversial educational community in southwestern Ontario where people of...
Manic State
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522126A woman, who denies being ill, talks and gesticulates in a highly animated manner. Too much talking...
Mario
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525010Set in the picturesque Magdalen Islands of Québec, Mario is a story of complicity between a...
Mental Patients' Association
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524224One of eight Canadians will at some time in their lives be admitted to a mental institution. This...
Mothers of Courage
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522646It's ten-year-old Bethany's school concert, and her parents are watching anxiously. Bethany may...
Mr. Symbol Man
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526446"Blissymbols" are giving children without speech a joyous new means of communication. This film...
My Friends Call Me Tony
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525544The film is about a ten-year-old boy who can distinguish only light from shadow. Despite this...
Nicholas
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525952Nicholas recounts the story of how the parents of a severely disabled child in a fishing village in...